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Quotes About Government

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.
~ Dan Lipinski
There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
~ Bill Scott
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
~ Jonathan Kozol
I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.
~ Rahm Emanuel
Anyone who sends their children now to government schools usually does it because they can't afford private education. I went to a government college where 350 out of 400 girls said their brothers go to private schools.
~ Atishi
I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.
~ Chris Gabrieli
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
~ Tim Scott
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
~ Donald T. Regan
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
~ Mitt Romney
I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
~ Mitt Romney
GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
~ Jesse Ventura
The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
~ Jason Chaffetz
I know how businesses work and what government can do to help lay a strong foundation for the private sector.
~ Suzan DelBene
Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.
~ Gene Green
We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.
~ Doug Ducey
Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
~ Elaine Chao
To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.
~ Elaine Chao
For connecting the government and private sector, while breaking through infamous federal bureaucracy, Ivanka Trump is exactly what Washington needed. She's making policy changes inside the beltway, prompting an improvement in the lives of individuals across the country.
~ Katie Pavlich
Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
If you leave government life for greener private sector pastures, why on earth do you still need to peep into the nether reaches of national secrets unless you're either addicted to preserving that special power or you plan on making sweet cash off your top secret stash?
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.
~ Margarita Simonyan