Private Quotes

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

I'm a private kind of person.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.