Quotes About Public Employees

#1. It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

Scott Walker

#2. I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

Andrew Cuomo

#3. Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.

Devin Nunes

#4. As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.

Mary Burke

#5. Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.

Mark McKinnon

#6. I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.

Mary Burke

#7. Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Robert Reich

#8. When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

#9. Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Jennifer Granholm

#10. Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Grover Cleveland

#11. I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Trey Gowdy

#12. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Bill Lee

#13. Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.

Mike Barnicle

#14. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

Emily Giffin

#15. Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

Mark Victor Hansen

#16. If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

Fabrice Grinda

#17. Flickr is no such thing, just as Google is not operating a library. They are commercial enterprises designed to maximize revenue, not defend political expression, preserve our collective heritage, or facilitate creativity, and the people who work there are private employees, not public servants.7

Astra Taylor

#18. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#19. Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Jack Welch

#20. It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Sal Albanese

#21. At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.

Margaret Hamburg

#22. It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Jack Anderson

#23. Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.

Mark Mason

#24. I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

Cliff Floyd

#25. When a chief executive says, 'people are our most important asset' he (almost always 'he' since by 2008, only 12 of the Fortune 500 companies had CEOs who were women)is really speaking of a small percentage of the firm's employees. Everyone else is merely labor cost.

John J. Sarno

#26. The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering ...

John Wimber

#27. I think public sector workers, our teachers, our firefighters, our home health workers who work for states, they do God's work. They are some of our most important employees.

Thomas Perez

#28. Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

Mathew Staver

#29. It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Wen Jiabao

#30. Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

James P. Hoffa

#31. American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

Robert Kuttner

#32. It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

Howard Schultz

#33. This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

Joe Henderson

#34. To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Mason Cooley