Donald Trump Quotes

Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

There are many similarities between government and business, but they are not the same.

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

I think, people who remain in the political sphere as opposed to going into the private sector, really what they're looking at is how in some ways the compensation is power. How do you place a price tag on the ability to affect millions of people's lives? How do you place a price tag on the ability to determine the rules by which all of us play?

The public sector can serve as a catalyst for changing attitudes in the private sector.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you're 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.