Public Sector Employment Quotes

Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

All of my parents' friends worked in public sector jobs. The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

Liberals don't love big government because they think it's efficient, compassionate, fair or even remotely useful. They support big government because they are guaranteed the support of nearly everyone who works for the government.

But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today.

[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.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

In the public sector, there are a million people in the health service. There ought to be a couple of dozen or more on the Labour side, who learned their trade in different parts of the health service, and the public sector, and local government. And bus drivers, and people on the Underground.

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

I think government actually does create jobs.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

These Republican governors who say that government can’t create jobs---well government certainly created their jobs..

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

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

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

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

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.