It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
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.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.
