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I believe in public services. -- George Osborne
Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving. -- Elaine MacDonald
I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges. -- Trey Gowdy
Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them. -- Charles Kennedy
Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs. -- Corrine Brown
While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures. -- Henry Waxman
We believe that government in Britain should improve the quality of people's lives and improve the quality of our public services in every local community. -- Charles Kennedy
The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered -- Gordon Brown
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created. -- Bryan Stevenson
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right. -- George Osborne
Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services. -- John Hutton
Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance. -- Eduardo Paes
When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials. -- Charles Kennedy
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. -- John Hutton
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great. -- Theresa May
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online. -- David Blunkett
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary. -- George Mason
Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights. -- Hugo Chavez
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services. -- Pope John Paul II
It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business. -- Arnold Palmer
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest. -- Ludwig von Mises
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that. -- Trevor Phillips
The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. -- John Hutton
Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare. -- William J. Clinton
I was born into public service. -- Janice Hahn
I have had a career in public service. -- Scott McClellan
Stopping bad things is a significant public service. -- Ted Cruz
I have a lifelong devotion to public service. -- Caroline Kennedy
I've found my sweet spot here in public service. -- Tim Walberg
I certainly feel a strong call of public service. -- Chelsea Clinton
My whole life has been dedicated to public service. -- Leon Panetta
The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. -- Jack Abramoff
My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service. -- Kenneth Chenault
Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' -- Tina Brown
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. -- Tony Blair
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. -- Michelle Bachelet
AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. -- Isaac Newton
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service. -- Leslie Stephen
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. -- Jonathan Haidt
If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself. -- Jack Abramoff
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. -- Nicholas Kristof
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. -- Geoff Mulgan
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. -- Liya Kebede
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. -- Bill Delahunt
To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like. -- Joel Miller
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society. -- Tom Peters
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. -- Cliff Stearns
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health. -- Laurie Garrett
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