Private Sector Quotes - Page 5

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  Larry Elder

  People, Profit

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• When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Government, Political, Failing

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• Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Profit, Embarrassed, Romney

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• The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

  Al Franken

  Rights, Government, Years

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• If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

  Evan Bayh

  Jobs, Would Be, Six Months

  "Bayh: No Chance I'll Switch Parties" by David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Ducks, Political

  "GOP fears government health care 'alligator'". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2009.

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• With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

  Bob Beauprez

  Excess, Research, Benefits

  "3 ways to reform labor and save our country". www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2012.

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• The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, Self Confidence

  "Interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie". Interview with Piers Morgan Tonight, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2011.

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• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  Vince Cable

  Mean, Government, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Play, People

  "Calling on the Private Sector: It’s Time to Play a Role" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive resources of society - far from satisfying the wants of consumers - are now directed, by compulsion, away from these wants and needs. The consumers are deliberately thwarted, and the resources of the economy diverted from them to those activities desire by the parasitic bureaucracy and politicians.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Desire, Needs

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.422, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Accountability, Development

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• Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, States, Ifs

  "Romney Visits Storm-Stricken La. Ahead Of Obama". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. September 1, 2012.

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• The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

  Bill Gates

  Government, People, Giving

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• It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.

  Caroline Baum

  Government, Dollars, Pay

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• Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

  Mitch Daniels

  States, Personal Freedom, Protective

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• [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Thinking, Periods, Organized

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• The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Needs, Roles

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Together, Orbit

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

  Robert Reich

  Prison Guards, Security Guards, Growing

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• The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, America, Government

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• The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

  David Limbaugh

  Empowering, Effort, Liberty

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