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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to. -- Jack Anderson
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees. -- James Bovard
Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens. -- James Bovard
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers. -- James Bovard
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures. -- Ludwig von Mises
It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't. -- Gary Pruitt
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
I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack. -- Kevin Mitnick
The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice. -- Bruce Rauner
Most of us don't think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting 'comedic' accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread. -- Alex Pareene
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. -- James Hansen
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. -- Newt Gingrich
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed. -- Ronald Kessler
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. -- Mitch McConnell
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough. -- Devin Nunes
Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note. -- Charles Duhigg
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution. -- Tom DeLay
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee. -- Carl Paladino
I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. -- Jan Brewer
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. -- Jack Canfield
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. -- Wen Jiabao
I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?' -- Gary Johnson
I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government. -- Allyson Schwartz
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending. -- Robert Higgs
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. -- John Kennedy Toole
I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees. -- Junichiro Koizumi
Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents. -- Mathew Staver

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