Best Public Sector Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unacknowledged fact that America has never been an especially capitalist country. The postal system, the land grant provision for public education, the national park system, the Homestead Act, the graduated income tax, the Social Security system, the G.I. Bill -- all of these were and are massive distributions or redistributions of wealth meant to benefit the population at large.”

Wealth Capitalism Socialism Public Sector Redistribution Of Wealth

Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books

Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books

“Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.”

“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking sector, they play games with the lives of millions, hysterically reject any kind of government intervention when the profits are rolling in, but are quick to pass the bill for the cleanup and the far-reaching consequences of these avoidable tragedies to the public when things go wrong. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.”

Suffering Environment Capitalism Workers Profit Corporations Labour Exploitation Banks Public Sector Subprime Mortgage Crisis Economic Interventionism Nationalisation Deepwater

Author:Michael Hureaux-Perez

“Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.”

Reality Reality Of Life Public Servants Public Sector

Author:Mike Klepper

“I think anyone who Is In the army, police force, security, home affairs or any public sector . Should not only be trained on how to do their job, but also should be taught Accountability, responsibility, loyalty, honesty, teamwork, Integrity , compliance, ethics ,morals and most importantly patriotism to avoid corruption .”

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Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.”

Life Work Freedom Capitalism Bureaucracy Autonomy Private Sector Trade Unions Public Sector Petite Bourgeoise

Book:Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

Source: Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just how untenable it is to starve the public sphere at the very moment we need it most.”

Capitalism Climate Change Inequality Global Warming Public Service Austerity Public Sector

Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.”

“State first, subject second, statesman last.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Before that, she was an elementary school teacher, until the state stripped the unions of collective bargaining rights in the Right to Learn Act, subcontracting public school education to for-profit corporations. She still missed teaching, but that was strictly an hourly-wage temp job now, for those lucky enough to get hired.”

Private Sector Public Education Public Sector For Profit Education

Book:The Subprimes

Source: The Subprimes

“Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.”

Money Greed Nuclear Weapons Billionaire Public Sector Profligacy

Book:The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

“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.”

Running Together Deals Situation Steps Angry Critical Supposed To Be Valleys Private Sector Gasoline Public Sector

Author:Janet Napolitano

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

Jobs Support Four Employee Private Sector Public Sector

Author:Russell Pearce

“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.”

Years Stills Bigs Kids Waste Program Delay Public Sector

Author:Antonis Samaras

“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.”

Should Matter Shows Study Waste Workers Income Shops Household Unnecessary Employed Salary Paychecks Expenditures Public Sector Budgeting

Author:Mark Skousen

“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.”

Thinking Has Beens Economy Standards India Western Driven Market Economy Public Sector Mixed Economy

Author:Manmohan Singh

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

Wells Doe Revenue Public Sector

Author:Jim Talent

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

Ifs Public Sector

Author:Claire McCaskill

“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.”

Ifs Jobs Games Support Policy Taxes Creating Innovation Private Sector Public Sector Bad Games

Author:Jack Welch

“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.”

People Way Giving I Can Real Enough Helping Opportunity Differences Wealth Seeing Lucky Impact Dollars Enormous Spares Volunteer Monetary Spare Time Public Sector

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“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.”

Ifs Want Long Government Term Effort Issues Crisis Agree Solve Long Term Cant Ongoing Obesity Public Sector Long Term Success Collaborative Effort

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“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.”

States Government Economy British Private Sector Public Sector

Author:James Goldsmith

“You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.”

Public Health Public Education Public Sector

Author:Paul Farmer

“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.”

Force Party Republican Unions Tea Tea Party Walkers Gop Public Sector Collective Bargaining

Author:Howard Fineman

“Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.”

States Cities Support Greater Essentials Projects Approach Hearing Council Innovative Legislature Showing Up Speaking Up Public Sector State Legislatures City Council

Author:Mark Winne

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.”

Thinking Needs Should Important Reason Differences Lines Party Groups Needed West Debate Variety Socialist Intervention Private Sector Public Sector

Author:Barney Frank

“I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.”

Decision India Autonomy Assured Governance Public Sector Business Decisions

Author:Narendra Modi

“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.”

People Government Building Projects Prison Everyday Library Museums Campus Casinos Public Sector

Author:Philip Freelon

“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.”

Way Risk Share Amount Innovation Rewards Chains Crucial Immense Public Sector Risk And Reward

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.”

People Knows Stills Country Government Today Quality Know How Commitment Dollars Lists Rely Canada Providing Salary Transparent Public Service High Quality Disclosure Public Sector Ontario

Author:Deb Matthews

“We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.”

Government Plans Drug Aids Cures Administration Introducing Wholesale Public Sector

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“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.”

Individual Effort Liberty Generations Bills Favors Empowering Expenses Diminish Future Generation Funding Stimulus Irresponsible Private Sector Individual Liberty Acorns Public Sector

Author:David Limbaugh

“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.”

Real States Government Hell Cutting Taxes Unions Democrat Reform Budgets Entitlement State Government Public Sector Tax Reform Symbiosis

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“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.”

Want Needs Mean Desire Economy Politician Activity Resources Consumers Productive Satisfying Bureaucracy Compulsion Private Sector Wants And Needs Public Sector

Book:Economic Controversies

Source: Economic Controversies

“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.”

Government Class Divided Cash Bureaucracy Stolen Robbers Public Sector Government Bureaucracy

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“[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.”

Political Politician Selling Buying Norm Arrested Private Sector Political Systems Downfall Bribery Public Sector Buying And Selling

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills”

“The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)”

Growing Security Prison Occupation Private Sector Public Sector Security Guards Prison Guards

Author:Robert Reich

“Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector.”

Should Government Action Principles Cases Support Program Discrimination Federal Government Private Sector Affirmative Action Affirmative Public Sector

Author:Newt Gingrich

“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.”

People Years Kind Facts Lasts Percent Increase Unions Seven Workers Barack Salary Freeze Private Sector Public Sector

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

World Said Problem School House Poor Streets Television Depends Clean Expensive Private Sector Filthy Affluent Public Sector Clean House

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Knows Inclination Public Sector

Author:Rashida Jones

“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.”

“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.”

Needs States Actors United United States Clear Greater Information Capacity China Russia Iran Permit Private Sector Public Sector

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.”

Mean Moments Government Modern Birth Spending Driven Infrastructure 1930s Public Sector

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come to Trump Tower. People of different races and ethnicities. All political persuasions. People who have different backgrounds, public sector, private sector. Most of them will not be in the cabinet. Most of them are coming because they love the country and they want to share what their work on a particular issue or a particular success story has been.”

“All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.”

Needs Kind Long Bigs Energy Term Common Commitment Argument Overcoming Innovation Investment Long Term Barriers Public Sector

Author:Ted Nordhaus

“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.”

“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.”

Mean Roles Capitalism Finance Private Sector Public Sector Rethinking

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

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