Public Sector Quotes:

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

- Herman E. Daly

topic: Hands, Feet, Looks, Public Sector, Invisible Hand

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

- James Goldsmith

topic: Government, Economy, States, Public Sector

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

- Henry Hazlitt

source: Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.121, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Political, Liberty, Facts, Public Sector

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

source: "Losing Faith In The Zombie-Run Government". www.businessinsider.com. September 13, 2010.

topic: Faith, Government, Two, Public Sector

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

- Alexis Herman

topic: Jobs, Government, President, Public Sector

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

- Antonis Samaras

topic: Kids, Years, Waste, Public Sector

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

topic: Running, Together, Valleys, Public Sector

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

- Chris Christie

topic: Real, World, Real World, Parity, Public Sector

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

- Jim Talent

source: "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien". www.cnn.com. June 14, 2012.

topic: Doe, Revenue, Wells, Public Sector

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

- Mariana Mazzucato

topic: Mean, Roles, Finance, Public Sector, Rethinking

In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

- Llewellyn Rockwell

topic: Government, Class, Cash, Public Sector, Robbers

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

- Mariana Mazzucato

topic: Innovation, Risk, Way, Public Sector, Risk And Reward

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

- Johan Norberg

topic: World, Today, Economics, Public Sector, Runaway

I think we should, as the public sector or politicians, stop creating an illusion that it is the public sector that drives growth and jobs. It is not. It is the private sector that does it. There is no growth without entrepreneurship.

- Alexander Stubb

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Creating, Public Sector

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

- Robert Kuttner

source: Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Country, Government, Doe, Welfare State, Public Sector

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

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

topic: Mean, Desire, Needs, Wants And Needs, Public Sector

In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Jobs, Zero, Long, Public Sector

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

topic: Integrity, Agency, Government, Outsourcing, Mrs Thatcher

If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

- Jack Welch

topic: Jobs, Games, Creating, Public Sector, Bad Games

The private sector is first of all much larger than the public sector. The waste we see in that sector does not result from the fact that people spend their money carelessly. Mostly, it occurs because what one family must spend to achieve its goals often depends heavily on what other families spend.

- Robert H. Frank

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Public Sector

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

- Tony Blair

source: Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

topic: Views, Class, Misunderstood, Public Sector

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

- Claire McCaskill

topic: Public Sector

Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: Real, Opportunity, Differences, Spare Time, Public Sector

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

- Paul Farmer

source: "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

topic: Competition, Want, Resources, Mindless, Public Health

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

- Manmohan Singh

topic: Thinking, India, Economy, Mixed Economy, Public Sector

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.

- Mark Skousen

topic: Income, Budgeting, Matter, Public Sector, Expenditures

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

- Howard Fineman

source: "The Real Political Math In Wisconsin" by Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

topic: Party, Tea, Unions, Collective Bargaining, Public Sector

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

- Russell Pearce

topic: Jobs, Support, Four, Public Sector

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

- Rashida Jones

topic: Public Sector

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

- Chris Christie

topic: Years, Reform, Dollars, Bankruptcy, Public Sector

We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

- Marcus Samuelsson

topic: Government, Issues, Long, Long Term Success, Collaborative Effort

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

- Linda Chavez

topic: Law, Unions, Littles, Labor Laws, Public Sector

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

- Tony Blair

source: "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

topic: Strong, Winning, Views, Public Sector

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

topic: Excess, Research, Benefits, Health Coverage, Public Sector

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

- Lawrence Klein

topic: Support, Pennsylvania, Research, Econometrics, Public Sector

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

- Henry Mintzberg

topic: Government, Community, Private Sector, Public Sector

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Harry Truman, Vision, Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight, John Kennedy

[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

topic: Political, Buying, Politician, Bribery, Public Sector

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

topic: Empowering, Effort, Liberty, Public Sector

Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Real, Cutting, Government, Symbiosis, Public Sector

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.

- Philip Freelon

topic: Museums, Government, People, Public Sector

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: School, House, Television, Clean House, Public Sector

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Municipality, Winning The Lottery, Focus Groups, Public Sector, Reproductive Health

Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

topic: Years, People, Salary, Public Sector

We need to make it very clear - whether it's Russia, China, Iran or anybody else - the United States has much greater capacity. And we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

topic: Russia, Iran, United States, Public Sector

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Affluence, Lifetime, Squalor, Public Housing, Public Sector

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

source: Source: www.aims.ca

topic: People, Effort, Investment, Public Sector

The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

- Jesse Jackson

source: Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Insecure, Fireman, Looking For A Job

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

source: Source: www.aims.ca

topic: Trying, Special, Would Be, Public Sector

We've discussed the public sector union people. We are messing with their bread and butter. They have their hands in the treasuries of all states in which they operate and the US Treasury. They have their hands there. That's how they live. Now, we're broke and the states are broke for a multitude of reasons. What they're being paid is among them.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Hands, People, Unions, All State, Public Sector