Kenneth Baker Quotes

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

If you're going to do economic reform, you'd better do it in one fell swoop rather than a little bit at a time.

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

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.

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

… a future where we promote the private sector and not the privileged sector.

China's economic transformation began with the introduction in the 1980s of market incentives in the agricultural sector. These reforms were followed by a gradual opening to the global economy, a process that accelerated in the early 1990s.

When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.

We need to diversify the economy. We need to get away from sugar.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'