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


Timothy Geithner

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These are extremely trying times for our country. The recovery is going to be led by us via our priv...
THOMAS J. POWELL I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
JEAN HARRIS It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a presi...
ELAINE CHAO Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN I'm not surprised to see private equity make a big move like this -- private equity has significant ...
ALEXANDER PARIS We are providing a service that can save the federal government lots of money and help some local go...
DWIGHT LUTON A recovery of private consumption is on the cards this year.
ALEXANDER KOCH I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can pu...
RICK PERRY No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to governme...
ISABEL PATERSON Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have...
MATT SALMON This agreement is a voluntary commitment by our private sector to help the government create a syste...
MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
BILL OWENS We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have ...
TIM SCOTT Leadership at the civic level is designed to be inclusive, but has difficulty being effective. In th...
MED YONES Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flour...
BILL OWENS If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The g...
TIM SCOTT In American history, this is the most outrageous giveaway ever extended by the federal government to...
BARMAK NASSIRIAN The government tells us that we must turn over very private, personal financial information to them ...
BETH MCCONNELL This points out the need to have private enforcement. It gives private citizens some recourse to pro...
HOWARD FOSTER The county could learn from the private sector. I don't think we need to make cuts in direct service...
DIAN POWELL The government can still have management control over Bank of Taiwan, but it can have participation ...
FRANK HSIEH This is private property! This is not a government entity. This is not a government facility.
FRANK BLAS Our goal is to try to identify the ways this money can be used to have the most leverage, in terms o...
ANDY KOPPLIN We'll bend over backwards to help them find other jobs with the state government or with the private...
MAREN DALEY This is a private residence now, ... We don't plan to open it back up.
LEE LEWIS From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only t...
GUO GUANGCHANG We had so many great ideas, but not enough money to make a lot of it happen, so we came up with the ...
LAURE SWANSON GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must...
JEFFREY R. IMMELT Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for ad...
THOMAS WOODS A city of private lives, led in quiet resignation.
CRAIG R. WHITNEY I just felt like they were looking down on us. We can just grieve in private now. That's what we nee...
JANICE RENN This particular neighborhood is actually dying. We keep hearing 'public purpose' while in this case ...
REP. PRISCILLA TAYLOR They're doing a nice dance around the question of private investment.
GEORGE BAKER potentially the single biggest private sector investment in cricket.
CLIVE LLOYD The Capital river is frozen, but we can unthaw it. Bring private capital together with private enter...
THOMAS J. POWELL This facility is being sold to a foreign government. It's not being sold to a private company.
DENIS TAYLOR Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
MARK SKOUSEN Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm t...
MASAYOSHI SON The worst in retail sales should be behind us. A recovery of private consumption is in the cards thi...
ALEXANDER KOCH International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as ...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER New discoveries can further augment reserves, but for that we need to make huge investment.
MAIZAR RAHMAN The pace will quicken now. The parliamentary process hasn't ended, but by any reckoning last night w...
ANDY BURNHAM We're looking for a moratorium on state and local taxes to allow time so the government and the priv...
BRUCE HAHN Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who ma...
ROBERT REICH We decided to use private money so we could use private architects. I realized this is the way we ge...
DEDE WILSEY The IMF needs to focus on the fact that it and all of us in government are alongside what are now va...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS We don't support unnecessary government intrusion into private marketplace negotiations.
BRIAN DIETZ I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO The simple conclusion you can draw is that the tape and video camera had nothing to do with the acci...
FRANK SPINNER Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government p...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV It is just too massive for any private insurer to handle. The government has to have a role there, a...
LARRY COX Normally, when a private prosecutor is appearing, it's with the conformity of the government prosecu...
JUDGE RENATO DILAG It's not right to think that the public's interest in protecting species should be the sole burden o...
GREG WALDEN I wish we could push a button and find a way to engage the private sector and make this free.
JAMES WILLIAMS This highlights a re-accelerating economy led by consumption and investment.
DONG TAO When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private ...
HENRY HAZLITT We're in this together. This has got to be a public-private partnership. We can't do it by ourselves...
LINTON WELLS II God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the...
JOY BALUCH The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
ERIC ANDERSON The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
ERIC C. ANDERSON The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, an...
CLINT BOLICK We need to build pride in the zoo. It's a state zoo, not a private zoo.
CULLIE TARLETON No private detective looks like a private detective. That's one of the first rules of private detect...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Government never solves problems. It usually adds to them or exaggerates them. Bureaucracies load th...
RON YACOPETTI Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.
ANDREW STEER Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Governme...
HENRY HAZLITT Don't expect a new government to arrive and somebody to flip a switch to make everything look just f...
RALPH SOLVEEN In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that t...
TERRY EAGLETON Private discrimination also played a role, but it would have been considerably less effective had it...
RICHARD ROTHSTEIN If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the money...
JAMES E. ROGERS The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment m...
CRAIG VENTER This decision is too important to make in private. This is going to affect a lot of people.
FLOYD THOMAS If we can't get private investment, then I want to go to the City Council and ask them to buy it as ...
FRANK MELTON But we shouldn't act as though the private sector doesn't have its act together and the government d...
MICHAEL VATIS This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of pow...
DAVID ABNEY You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the pri...
MITT ROMNEY You need someone who can deal with private industry and who can deal with government. The certified ...
BILL MARTUS It may seem innocuous, but the government and private corporations could use these devices to track ...
LIZ MCINTYRE The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incenti...
VICTOR PONTA But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive...
JANE BYRNE I don't believe in giving private properties to someone else for private use to make money off of it...
MAXINE WATERS By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure...
ROBERT WILSON The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retireme...
WILLIAM VICKREY We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and...
DAVID GROSS We think that that's inappropriate, ... The genius of the Internet is that it has been flexible (and...
DAVID GROSS We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government ha...
SEBASTIAN PINERA This will be a long recovery. This storm shook us badly, but there is an amazing recovery effort tak...
MATT SNORTON This partial strike is a very smart move by the workers, as it places a great deal of pressure on th...
DAVID GREGORY Government needs to respect private property. It needs to understand the impact of its regulations.
DEAN BOYER We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that...
ELAINE CHAO We all feel state economic development policy has not had the benefit [of input] from the private se...
KATHRYN WYLDE Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector h...
JOHN REDWOOD It's something we need to talk about in our community, governments and private businesses.
JULIA PATTERSON This generous outpouring from such a distinguished and compassionate arts organization is truly reas...
MALCOLM WHITE Just as it is a good practice to make all fields private unless they need greater visibility, it is ...
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TIMOTHY EDWARDS I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for th...
TIMOTHY HUTTON Honestly, it wasn't (too tense). I know all of the candidates quite well, and I'm not a terribly com...
TIMOTHY PARKER The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrializatio...
TIMOTHY NOAH Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front...
TIMOTHY NOAH we sleep better that way ... But the truth is, there are people like him, armed to the teeth, waitin...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,8...
TIMOTHY MURPHY Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings...
TIMOTHY NOAH I would imagine that members were getting weary. Six weeks is a very long time and a lot of people w...
TIMOTHY JONES This is getting larger and larger.
TIMOTHY JONES Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that h...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted...
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