Privatizing Quotes

#1. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

Henry Rollins

#2. Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Thomas Frank

#3. What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

Michael Moorcock

#4. Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

Debbie Stabenow

#5. I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#6. I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

Gail Collins

#7. America's corporate and political elites
now form a regime of their own and
they're privatizing democracy. All the
benefits - the tax cuts, policies and
rewards flow in one direction: up.

Bill Moyers

#8. I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

Hillary Clinton

#9. The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#10. Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Max Baucus

#11. I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

Mitt Romney

#12. Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Diane Ravitch

#13. We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.

Richard Neal

#14. Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Frank

#15. Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

Shelley Berkley

#16. As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Eli Broad

#17. Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.

Thomas L. Dumm

#18. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Francois Truffaut

#19. If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

Terence McKenna

#20. I have always wanted a dog, but we don't have anyone to care for it.

Lydia Ko

#21. I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#22. That's how I'll score my Nobel: one girl's experiment to live off cereal in her room for an entire summer.

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#23. Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

Will Rogers

#24. For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

Beverley Mitchell

#25. I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.

Jamaica Kincaid

#26. Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!

Amy Poehler

#27. Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#28. I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

Gordon Lightfoot