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When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. -- Robert Reich
I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees. -- Andrew Cuomo
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
Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth. -- Devin Nunes
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. -- Jennifer Granholm
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. -- Grover Cleveland
As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table. -- Mary Burke
I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins. -- Mary Burke
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. -- Jennifer Granholm
While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations, the answer is simple: Democratic politicians, who have near-total political control of California and of America's biggest cities, support this massive transfer of wealth to public employees. -- Devin Nunes
This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving? -- Rob Portman
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. -- Russell Pearce
Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve. -- James P. Hoffa
I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges. -- Trey Gowdy
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. -- Robert Reich
Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. -- Charles Duhigg
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. -- Sal Albanese
Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few. -- Mark McKinnon
There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed. -- Frank Murphy
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
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
To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress. -- 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 would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans. -- Amy Klobuchar
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education. -- Pankaj Mishra
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing. -- Fabrice Grinda
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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

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