Private Quotes

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

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

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

I'm the most private person.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.