Privatization Quotes

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

I think our TV news editors are still sometimes using the language of government propaganda. We still hear the term `war on terror` for an illegal war. We`re still hearing the words reform and modernization when what we really mean is privatization and public greed.

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president`s willing to do. And they don`t like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

I`m criticized by the guys who tried to understand privatization as the economic process. They were wrong from the very beginning.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

As far as privatization is concerned, we will follow the international norms, and all foreign companies have to comply with international standards.

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don`t want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the `security` out of Social Security.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

If you`re going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

Well, those, including my colleague and friend the premier of Alberta, who propose that the solution is in the privatization of health care, will take any argument they can find. And sometimes even misrepresent the facts to try and bolster their argument.

It`s important because in theory, companies are allowed to privatize, In practice, we won`t see a broad privatization.