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When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance. -- George R. Roberts
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
I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector. -- Eric Schneiderman
We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle. -- Sebastian Pinera
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. -- John Redwood
We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion. -- Manmohan Singh
The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors. -- Anthony Giddens
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. -- Tom Vilsack
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow. -- Thomas E. Mann
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. -- Henry Mintzberg
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. -- Henry Hazlitt
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
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
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties. -- Conrad Black
We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's 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
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
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
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
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
I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector. -- Deval Patrick
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
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. -- Russell Pearce
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector. -- Jim Talent
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. -- Herman E. Daly
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector. -- Kathleen Wynne

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