Neal Boortz Quotes

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

What do you think the appropriate role of government is in society? The way I look at this job is, you want me to do X? Well, is the private sector doing X with any kind of success? Because if they are, I'd rather have them do it than have us do it.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interferes with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

Education is largely run at the state level.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

We’ve gotten in the habit over the last 40 years in thinking the government has the answers. There’s very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves.

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.