Government Workforce Quotes

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.

Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.