Private Sector Quotes - Page 5

• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Upset, Kind

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• We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

  Evan Davis

  Heart, Museums, Government

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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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• As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?

  Howie Carr

  Fighting, Night, Thinking

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• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  Gavyn Davies

  Diversity, Would Be, Television

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• I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Saws, Financial

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• When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Together, Steps

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• We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Moving, Long

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, Order, Support

  "Greek PM: Two Deals But No Drachma Ahead Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

  Reince Priebus

  Team, Successful, Careers

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• It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

  Russell Pearce

  Jobs, Support, Four

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• The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives?

  Muhammad Yunus

  Running, Challenges, Way

  Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis (2003). “Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.206, PublicAffairs

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• Diversity is so important for me, particularly in the United States Senate, and it's been important to every job that I've held. Whether you're in government or the private sector, we should be just as diverse as the community that we represent.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Jobs, Government, Diversity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It may have hastened the move of the former Minority Leader Trent Lott, to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then...It may be that we are all just older and wiser.

  Roger Wicker

  Moving, Successful, Criticism

  "Senate GOP raises eyebrows at Gang of Eight plan". www.politico.com.

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• Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!

  Dan Aykroyd

  Life, Money, College

  "Ghostbusters". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

  Donald T. Regan

  Liberty, Done, Levels

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• One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.

  John Danilovich

  Country, Use, Development

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• Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur job growth. The Fed's plan is to give banks more money to finance the private sector job creation. But banks have ample cash now; they aren't lending, and the private sector is not creating the jobs. That is why we have 15 million people unemployed.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Jobs, Creating, Government

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• Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

  Alan Greenspan

  Dark, Giving, People

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• There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Differences, Unemployment, Youth

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• Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Creating, Government, Support

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• Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Real, Environmental

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• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

  Kevin Rudd

  Cutting, Government, Growth

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• If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Government, Community, Public Sector

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