Political Quotes

“If there is any internet. So there are places, when it comes to government and government services, for which there is a proper role for the private sector. We have long had public-private partnerships. Inside the Department of Defense, I think we have very well married together a fundamental public mission, right? We don't privatize the Army--right?--with the private sector mission. The technology for the Army gets developed a little bit faster if the private sector has a role to play; but what we have realized is that there are limits to the degree to which the private sector wants to own unprofitable services. One of the grants that got turned off before the court injunction was issued was a grant to community health centers. Community health centers, which are not-for-profit healthcare centers that are primarily funded by the Federal Government, often exist in the places where there is not a profit motivation to run healthcare, either in rural areas or in very low-income areas of cities. They run on very, very thin profit--excuse me--on very thin margins at all. They don't make profit. They are on very thin margins. So when they miss one payment from the Federal Government, they are talking about immediately laying off workers.”