Private Sector Quotes - Page 6

• The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

  Robin Zander

  Mortgage, Culprit, Housing

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• Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if...something. I'm not quite sure what.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Ben Carson, Proud

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• In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are in the process of dissolving thousands of state-owned companies and converting them into stock corporations. We even plan to accelerate this development. In contrast, it is the party's responsibility to improve the lives of the people, and this is where our citizens have great confidence in us. Party members who commit crimes are severely punished.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Party, Responsibility, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

  Neal Boortz

  Children, Government, Doe

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• The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.

  Kevin Sorenson

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• I understand what it takes to - to make a bright and prosperous future for America again. I - I spent my life in the private sector, not in government. I’m a guy who wants to help, with the experience I have, the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, Prosperous Future, America

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2012.

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• We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Growing Up, Tired

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• The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

  Anthony Giddens

  Looks, Economy, Synergy

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• What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Chris Christie: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I'm often asked why I left politics and went to Halliburton and I explain that I reached the point where I was mean-spirited, short-tempered and intolerant of those who disagreed with me and they said 'Hell, you'd make a great CEO', so I went to Texas and joined the private sector.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Texas, Hell

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• The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Government, Faces

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• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

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• When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  Sheldon Richman

  Jobs, Government, Investing

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• We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

  Dick Morris

  Government, People, Priorities

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• The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Responsibility, Government

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• Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Taken, Government

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• NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

  Ian Bremmer

  Technology, Space, Innovation

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• You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

  Darrell Issa

  Jobs, Dollars, Genius

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Support, Principles

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• The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Federal Government

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• Hillary Clinton has never created a single job other than government jobs or the staffers that work for her. She doesn't know the first thing about a private sector business other than being in the Rose Law Firm.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Government, Law

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Skills

  Source: www.mott.org

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.

  James M. Buchanan

  People, Effort, Investment

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Cities, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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