Private Sector Quotes

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order – and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

I don’t believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn’t kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector – farmers and firms – to invest and do business.

No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we’ll need to bring together the best from each corner, taking what works from government, the private sector, and our local communities and crafting common-sense solutions to gun violence.

We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.

I’ve got cabinet experience, military experience, and private sector experience.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector – the state will always be forced to step in where there is a clear public interest.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India‘s entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. ‘The state can’t run a railway,’ I was told. Well, they were wrong.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn’t do that.

Al Gore‘s problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He’s actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He’s much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.

To achieve the kinds of innovations needed to tackle the climate crisis, government must not shun the private sector, but rather must work closely with industry and our nation‘s great research universities.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.

Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time – for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Open and fair competition within free markets encourages innovation, meaning fresh perspectives can be applied. The private sector also brings skills and knowledge to bear on what can often be complex issues.

Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

Fundamentally, our broadband policy has been and should continue to be based on private sector companies continuing to build out their networks to meet consumer needs.

I wouldn’t trade the best days of my life in the private sector for the worst days of my life in the public sector.

If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.

The private sector doesn’t sit around and say – ‘Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.’

I am now a member of the private sector. I’m happy. I’ve got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

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.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

On climate and clean energy, government sets the international framework, and the private sector uses that framework to do what it does best: innovate, create, and drive global progress.

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.

A big part of our agenda is to position the United States for long-term sustainable growth and health, and those jobs come from the private sector.

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

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.

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.