Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
I was lured into a navvy's cottage tonight!" - Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to his Father.
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.
Dreams allow our private heroes to show up again and again, just when we need them most.
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.
Private Joker: The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.
Private Jack Bell: You see that hill? Second Lieutenant Whyte: Yeah.
Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Marty: [looking at a doctored photo of Ray and Abby] Dead? Private Detective Visser: So it would seem.
I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
