We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'
I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.
I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
