When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

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

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.