There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.
I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
