Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

Governors would like the money to be left on a stump and let them come and pick it up and spend it where they want. Governors like to spread money around rather than target it.

I am going to make Washington as irrelevant to your lives as possible

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

The best industrial policy is competition.

You can’t secure the country from inside the Beltway. The Federal government has got to trust the state Attorney’s General with critical information.

Repealing rules therefore requires federal agencies to explain why the factual and scientific bases for the predicted benefits of their rules were wrong or no longer adequate to justify those rules.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.

The federal government should encourage rather than micromanage market reform in all 50 states. Since health care is local, private-sector innovation in conjunction with state-level reform of the individual and small-group markets is a better approach.

Empowering communities by leveraging federal and local investments helps improve the federal-local relationship and advance shared priorities.

We will never have Russian-style privatization.

France's economy is stagnant, statist, and uncompetitive and urgently needs reform.

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.