Gerald Levin Quotes

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

In a mixed economy the public sector remains constrained by the overarching requirement of maintaining an efficient and profitable private sector.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

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.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

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

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.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

Just because there is a market failure, doesn’t mean there is a government solution.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country

I do not like government-sponsored enterprises.

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.