Privatization Quotes

• The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Creating, Dollars, Debt

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• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  War, Years, Two

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• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, Way, Limits

  Interview with Rajat Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. August 16, 2005.

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• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Moving, Focus, Firsts

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• I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

  Mary Landrieu

  Retirement, Opportunity, Effort

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• The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, Cutting, People

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• The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

  Harry Reid

  Cutting, People, President

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.

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• We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Working Together, Needs, Saving

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  Max Baucus

  Shapes, Today, Facts

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• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Yugoslavia, Doe, Republic

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• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country

  Barbara Mikulski

  Country, Hurt, Social

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• Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

  Frederick Chiluba

  Pills, Bitter, Cures

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• Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Gdp, Ownership

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• The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Believe, Law, Consideration

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• If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Mean, Experts, Accepted

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• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Safety, Important, Age

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• That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, People, Technique

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• Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

  Hugo Chavez

  Rights, People, Water

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Debt, Terrorism

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• Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.

  Vladimir Putin

  Withdrawal, Trends, Assets

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.

  Mark Steyn

  Integrity, Agency, Government

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• Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Long, Logical, Absurd

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• Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into punitive workfare programs, the privatization of public goods and an appeal to individual accountability as a substitute for social responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Accountability, Deregulation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Together, Arms, Social

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative points of view, has been so powerful and so normalized.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Views, Neoliberalism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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