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I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions. -- Narendra Modi
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. -- Deb Matthews
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector. -- Jim Talent
You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector. -- Rashida Jones
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. -- John Gates
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow. -- Thomas E. Mann
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. -- Scott Walker
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. -- Henry Hazlitt
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act. -- John Podhoretz
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. -- Paul Farmer
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. -- David Rockefeller
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
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
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
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
It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector. -- Scott Walker
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. -- Ben Bernanke
I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you. -- Rob McKenna
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do. -- Estelle Morris
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens. -- Rick Perlstein
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
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford. -- Pallam Raju
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
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line. -- Dee Dee Myers
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
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. -- Russell Pearce
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector. -- Kathleen Wynne
I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending. -- Judy Woodruff
Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve. -- James P. Hoffa
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. -- Herman E. Daly
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. -- Claire McCaskill
With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector's contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated. -- Karen Elliott House
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. -- Henry Mintzberg
Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992) -- Robert Reich
It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. -- Irving Kristol
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
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
...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector. -- Mark McKinnon
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 R. Klein
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures. -- Bob Barr
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
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 R. Klein
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested. -- Herbert Schiller
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture. -- Wayne Pacelle
The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked. -- David Suzuki
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
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
...[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
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
But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today. -- Alexis Herman
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
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
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
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. -- Rob McKenna
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
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail. -- Jon Meacham

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