Sebastian Pinera Quotes

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.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

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

And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do.

How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

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.

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

Everything we hope to do, depends on an expanding economic pie. And only a vibrant, competitive, thriving private sector can create that. Government is a necessary partner, but it is the junior partner. Only the private sector can produce the revenues for the social programs that we Democrats care so much about. The financing of those programs through ever more public debt violates our generation responsibility.

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

One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

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

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

If anyone will study the causes of retarded recuperation in Europe, he will find much of it due to stifling of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the government with business on the other.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.