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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

Thomas Jefferson

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Rita Mae Brown

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butler

A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; A government individual may do nothing except that which is legally permitted.

Ayn Rand

Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.

Alexander Hamilton

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Edgar Watson Howe

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Publilius Syrus

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Thomas Hobbes

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Now someone can jump online and find out a great deal from your voter registration or the DMV, ... What used to be considered private is out there for everyone to look at.

Karen Coyle

The fundamental question is, should people have to pay to be private, or should privacy be the default?

Tara Lemmey

They've always run into those really good private schools.

Ben Braaten

Very private and dignified.

Warren Christopher

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

Felix Frankfurter

To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.

Henry David Thoreau

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

Thomas Kretschmann

It's something we need to talk about in our community, governments and private businesses.

Julia Patterson

Government needs to respect private property. It needs to understand the impact of its regulations.

Dean Boyer

At a private gift exchange ceremony, one journalist broke all ground rules, behaved rudely, and was escorted out of the private meeting.

Helaine Klasky

What you're seeing right now is that private equity investors, corporations as well as institutional equity investors are all picking and choosing through equity assets.

Som Dasgupta

My concern about just having a private apology is because this happened to me it has frightened other people. It was intimidating.

Laura Berg

All of the paintings belong to a private collection.

Martha Trask

It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.

David Aubrey

I called this to the attention to the Corps of Engineers Memphis District Office and reminded them that federal law that prohibited any private structures from being on federal property.

Scott May

This vigilantism demonstrates the utter breakdown of the government. These private security forces have behaved brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them now on the streets of New Orleans is frightening and possibly illegal.

Michael Ratner

I don't understand what harm would be done by going forward with this. From what I have heard, a private company is paying for it, so residents would just get more information if it continued. I just don't see the harm in doing that.

Mike Carroll

There has to be a much better coordination of public and private efforts so that a lot more of the people who apply are actually eligible.

James Firman

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy

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.

Frederick Scott Oliver

The private equity that you have access to in Washington is very different than in L.A.. It's a lot sexier here to provide the film opportunity than in L.A.

Scott Shafer

Sometimes IM conversations you have are private and sensitive. You click a link, and that means the chat won't be saved in your email account or theirs or anywhere in between.

Keith Coleman

I was very sensitive. Sometimes I'd get my feelings hurt because I felt like an outcast. I was traveling alone. I didn't really have anyone to hang out with. I was a golfing machine. I'd play, I'd eat, I'd go back to a private house.

Amy Alcott

I believe there is greater certainty that the water and land will be saved under private ownership and I hope the county will come to see that.

Tovey Giezentanner

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

Luis Miguel

The state division of Historic Sites has the last word, even on private property.

Robert Carr

There are going to be areas of the state where the economics may be poor, and those are the areas where we need government intervention. The opportunity is there for the government to partner with private industry in those areas where market economics are considered questionable for natural development.

Peter Reilly

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Jeff Cooper

The patients are all males, with the exception of one. Seven of the patients were admitted at private hospitals and clinics in and around Pretoria, and the last one at a provincial hospital.

Ka Mzolo

These guys cashed out big time, made a lot of money by taking their company public. Little did they know or care that they were inviting into the house major private capital investment companies that were going to put pressure on their future management.

Conrad Fink

I believe that to solicit funds from private individuals, to open bank accounts, and to disburse and manage these funds without a duly-registered non-profit status is against the law.

Mary Johnson

I would assume a private establishment paying for a police officer, they should pay the entire (retirement) cost, both state and local, ... I would assume the locals would bill them as such.

Donald Hill

Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.

Bernardo Alvarez

It's time that Gerry Adams free himself from the IRA. We cannot in Western countries have a political party that has its own private army, particularly one that's been associated with criminality and violence.

Ted Kennedy

For the first time, you had novels that represented this domain of private feelings and women's lives. She examined how people act in private and how that affected the way they act in public.

Helen Thompson

He used it as his private jet.

Thomas Smart

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Donald T. Regan

My general experience is the private label manufacturer knows they're doing something not quite right; the retailer doesn't necessarily know.

Bob Mcdonald

Across the nation, cities and developers are fighting very hard to hold on to their power to confiscate other people's homes and businesses for private development. There is overwhelming public support for an end to eminent domain abuse. Legislatures need to make real changes, not cosmetic ones, to end eminent domain for private commercial development throughout the country.

Dana Berliner

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Upton Sinclair

But we shouldn't act as though the private sector doesn't have its act together and the government does. There are also significant vulnerabilities in government.

Michael Vatis

The private entrepreneur who is the heart of our system today will continue in the future. I don't think that's going to change. But there is obviously going to be a major change in a number of the parts of distribution.

John Devine

Private equity has the money waiting to be spent and an industry ripening for that kind of activism.

Richard Spitzer

The DOT's hands are really tied at this point because the fencing issue is on private property. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do.

Kris Carson

A public right cannot be changed by private agreement.

Legal Maxim

I think the question of how we deal with our client is probably something we ought to keep to ourselves. It's private and privileged.

Theodore Kaczynski

These are very, very bad numbers. There is a risk that private consumption may have shrunk for a fourth consecutive quarter, which would be a new negative record.

Andreas Rees

We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid doing the same. As governor, I will ensure Medicaid pays its bills and fix this problem once and for all.

Chandler Woodcock

Contrary to Thomas' carefully cultivated public persona, he is capable of abhorrent behavior in private.

Anucha Browne Sanders

We had to hire a private jet from Japan to bring (someone's) dog and a minder for the dog. It is bizarre and it is not the run of the mill thing.

Aaron Simpson

I happen to be a proud graduate of an excellent private parochial school, and I can't imagine why anyone would hide such a fact.

William Cunningham

You need someone who can deal with private industry and who can deal with government. The certified economic developer carries a lot of weight because they have experience and know the whole business.

Bill Martus

With reforms already being done, we expect a reversal of that. So we expect private investments and exports to pick up.

Reza Baqir

What a great opportunity for Washington's potato growers. The industry has been fighting for 25 years for access to the Japanese market, and through this broad partnership of government leaders and private industry, we are finally successful.

Matt Harris

I would suspect this would definitely be a private sector initiative.

Brent Thompson

There is still nothing on offer to stop NHS dentists from going into private practice, or attract back those who have already left.

Nanette Milne

We're really excited. We'll have the same amount of space, but it'll be better. Where we are now, we have to use shared common areas. In our new facility, we will have our own private restrooms inside our office.

Delphine Hill

But the real engine of the Coast's resurrection will be the powerful tax incentives provided by this legislation, principally the accelerated depreciation and private activity bonds.

John Harral

Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.

Abdelmounaim Addas

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.

Slade Gorton

The exceptional performance of household purchases in February bodes very well for growth in private consumption as a whole in the first quarter.

Mathieu Kaiser

These are personnel-related decisions that the regents need, and are entitled to, discuss first in private in committee.

Paul Schwartz

The private equity industry is growing and reaching potential investors it hasn't before, so it's important to understand the impact that has on the financial markets and the issues which might arise as a result.

Rob Mcivor

I've never tried to hide who I am from anyone, but I'm a very private person and in the past I haven't felt the need to say anything about my sexuality.

Mark Feehily

But I am not sure how much someone would be prepared to pay for James River, rather than buying a private company.

Ian Synnott

Virtually every major department store has multiple private label brands, so the creation of a private label division gives us access to an enormous and important customer base, with very substantial revenue growth opportunities.

John Hanna

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

Luigi Barzine

Armed intervention is always a decision for the proper authorities and not for private companies such as Shell.

Caroline Wittgen

Counsel has advised me to abstain. It's a private matter and I'm going to leave it at that.

Brent Hoffman

It looks as almost nothing is off limits. Almost everything is capable of being taken out, either by a bigger rival or private equity firm.

Roger Nightingale

We've found that the choices and freedom of less restrictive environments such as private centers or group homes just put too much pressure on Teddy.

Thom Shuman

Usually, the traditional approach for private equity firms is to buy portions of a company and create value out of the assets. So it'll be interesting to see how the consortium creates value. One way to do that is to sell parts of the business or go in a new direction.

Reed Phillips

We don't want to support developers to build their private roads.

Bill Lotz

We are excited to have the support and cooperation of Microsoft in this endeavor. The challenges facing education can only be met through a community effort from the public and private sector.

Paul Vallas

The increasing use of these private loans is a clear concern.

Sandy Baum

As far as quality is concerned, we are very close to the feeling you experience on a private aircraft, with the difference that we are a scheduled service.

Hans Schwab

I noticed it was odd that we didn't have it on the agenda like the county (Legislature). I think a 30-second moment of private reflection would be appropriate.

David Dempsey

We also would like to express our gratitude to the police and to the private citizens who helped to capture his attacker, and we are confident that justice will be served.

Josh Taylor

A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.

Walter Kerr

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Dr. John Marshall

A lot of suburbs have great facilities, a lot of money that is put into (the private school athletic programs), ... Integration is a big thing that hurt us because we (at Carver) always had a lot of good athletes and after integration they were going somewhere else.

Dan Lewis

He's been out there 32 years. And I've been in my own private jail.

Kathleen Ham

It's hard to know what a private equity firm is going to pay. They want to get it for a discount so they can repackage it and sell it at a premium.

Michael Judd

If it was purely left to private enterprise, this wouldn't get off the ground. But when you add it all up, we believe there are potentially revenue streams that are worthy of our investment.

Patrick Mcdougal

He is returning to the private sector. Any announcement about his replacement will be made in Washington.

Dana Smith

In Texas, private landowners have invited the group onto a lot of areas. The last count I heard was 2 million acres of property we've been asked to patrol. The owners have contacted us in some manner or another and said they're interested in having patrols.

Connie Hair

For a private buyer, it is unfathomable to purchase a company under these conditions.

Peter Westin

Using private collection agencies to help reduce the IRS collection inventory also will free IRS employees to pursue more complex cases.

Terry Lemons

A growing number of people may see companies in the private sector as putting profits before people and before ethics.

John Challenger

We've been talking a lot about the desserts ? private accounts. But not the spinach.

Robert Pozen

We're really glad that Rep. Dee believes in parent (choice). It's a fluid process. There are some questions we still have . . . (that are) better negotiated in private.

Royce Van Tassell

There's populist movements of groups of zealot fans who want to preserve it, ... But the Red Sox are a private business and it's their house, really. They can do what they choose to do with it.

Dan Shaughnessy

I'd rather those conversations between Barry and myself remain private.

Jeff Borris

If it's on private property, it's the owner's responsibility. If it's on public property, the city will clean it up.

Ron O'connor

If G-14 want to go their private way, then they can do so. But outside of the European and domestic football structures.

Lennart Johansson

It gives the government extraordinary power to interfere with the personal [and] private decisions made by families about how they will function as a unit.

Kent Willis

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

Peter Guralnick

I think they'll get better care because I think most of us in private health plans do get better coverage than Medicaid enrollees, even if on paper, Medicaid looks better.

Devon Herrick

People can look at your page. There's crazy people out there. You just have to be mature enough to know what should be private information and what's not. If someone sends me an AIM message, I can always block them.

Ranae Crouch

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s

Elbert Hubbard

When our legislature gets a proposal from the private sector we can show them our results and measures.

Dale Weeks

Industry experts forecast a positive outlook for the hotel industry for at least the next several years. We have been one of the largest private acquirers of hotel real estate in the past three years, and we expect to continue that pace.

Gary Mendell

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

Peter Jennings

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Agnetha Faltskog

I think as a small private school we do get overlooked sometimes, but that's fine with me because we know how good we are, and we are going to go out and play hard every night.

Mike Cooper

We believe that any changes or new solutions should be developed at the federal level by private and public payers and industry.

Rob Clark

HIV and Aids are issues very close to business and very close to everyone living and working in the country. We are all affected by the epidemic in some way, at our workplace and in our private lives.

Jerry Vilakazi

The private Bob Hope was very much like the public Bob Hope. He was warm and full of fun.

Linda Hope

I called the city arborist the next day and he told me they couldn't do anything. Virginia Power has the right to cut on my property due to an easement over private property.

Don O'hare

We haven't closed any trails, and we hope it doesn't come to that. But we are now issuing notices for certain 14ers: If you summit this peak, you are trespassing on private property.

Sara Mayben

It would not be reasonable for anyone to expect the images to remain private.

Jeffrey Miller

Asian governments, central banks and the private sector will have to focus more on bond market development and really strengthen market infrastructure.

Masahiro Kawai

We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our actions and relations with the foreign market on private diplomacy.

Abdelwahab Abdallah

Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.

Hugh Macleod

I must now focus on rebuilding my private life.

Paul Patton

It's on its face a conflict of interest if you're doing private polling for a candidate where you're also doing public polling on the race.

Cliff Zukin

If you've got good credit, the private education loans for the upcoming year are going to be competitive.

Mark Kantrowitz

We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private.

John Grisham

That's just the way Scott is. He's a very private guy and doesn't want to make a big deal of it.

Mark Morales

If he put his hand on your shoulder, you were the anointed candidate for raising money. Having Karl Rove for you was like having Tommy Franks for you if you were a private in the U.S. Army.

Ralph Wayne

This is the best example of what can happen when public institutions and private institutions, like my company, learn to work together for the good of the community and the nation.

David Murdock

The property was so extensive that he hired his own private 'police force' to patrol it.

Jack Sanders

Private schools … should be able to recruit. I know they need to.

John Proctor

We think the forum is being hijacked by the private sector and we're here to counteract that.

Steve Bloomfield

If we play that argument out, it's like a storm-water fee. You have to pay the fee and once you pay that fee, it's not private money, it's public money.

Pete Maysmith

The good news is there are folks who are seemingly interested in creating other opportunities, and we are hopeful they may come up with some good ideas … but that needs to be a private-sector type of initiative, not a government-sponsored initiative.

Chad Carlton

We can't get donations from a private donor or corporations because they can't write it off.

Joseph Santos

I personally don't want to see a nickel of my tax dollars subsidize a private development.

Bill Mccullough

We're trying to act like the development office of a private school. They can't live on tuition alone, and we can't live on taxes alone.

Cindy Johnson

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Penn Jillette

NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Ambrose Bierce

There's nothing that we can do, because they're now private citizens.

Vivian Burke

We did not seek him out. We notified the MPSA (Mississippi Private School Association) that we had a vacancy. We had a number of very qualified candidates that we interviewed.

Sally Howard

The worst-kept dirty secret in the private investigative trade is that this happens with many of the big-name investigative firms in the country.

Rob Douglas

Once you create a model for private players to want to enter the sector, you will get their interest. We are seeing movement in that direction.

Subir Gokarn

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

Isabel Paterson

It's all in private hands.

Jesse Reynolds

Well, if people don't know a lot about him there's a reason for it: it's because he's not one that has been a self-promoter. He's somebody who is very humble and very private in that respect.

Ray Flynn

We don't issue attorney general opinions to private citizens. And we're not the boss of the county commission. In terms of compelling the county commission to do something, we can't do that.

Lynn Solomon

Next year's focus will be to get the west end signed, ... The real challenge from AuTrain west will be access because there's so much private land.

Nancy Ford

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

William Blackstone

A recovery of private consumption is on the cards this year.

Alexander Koch

All kids deserve an opportunity. We're not accountable for where we're born into, but we are accountable for the opportunities we can provide for others. All parents, private as well as public, they all have a stake in this.

Gary Griffiths

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private. Keep it private.

Bill O'reilly

It was their moment. It was private. It allowed them to grieve. . . . It was so valuable.

Greg Hudnall

The elimination of private property is the very first thing in the Communist Manifesto.

Martha Babson

These organizations want to serve, including private companies.

Dan Goure

It's a big disappointment. It shows all the talk about the government's tax plans had a much bigger impact on private consumption than we had thought.

Ralph Solveen

Politics: 'The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'

Ambrose Bierce

In China, one area of great potential is the consumer market. Industries where there is potential for consolidation are also attractive, as private equity firms are interested in growth markets where they can easily exit their investments.

Jeanette Chan

For the first time ever in the country, it became possible for a person to bring a private lawsuit against an employer for violating immigration laws.

Howard Foster

The words of the family's loved one were intensely private, often uttered when the caller realized he or she might not survive.

Lawrence Kahn

It's a great day for private-property rights in the state of Arizona.

Jennifer Barnett

Why do we have to hire private contractors to do our work in Andean countries?

Jan Schakowsky

We as a nation--government working with the private sector--must do more to accelerate this technology and make it accessible to American drivers.

Sue Cischke

Don't expect a new government to arrive and somebody to flip a switch to make everything look just fine again. We're at a painful threshold that we need to cross in order to see an improvement later. In the short run, the measures will burden private households.

Ralph Solveen

It's fair to say the private residences will be at the very high end because of the nature of the project itself.

Vivian Deuschl

Private operators need to be given a shot. Amtrak assumes it will be competing for its future.

David Laney

When you look into business media, it's all about large, publicly traded companies. But the heart and sole of the economy is in private, closely held companies, like ECCO.

Bo Burlingham

A private insurance company or other payments is not going to make the difference for the well over 99 per cent of people who are still going to access services in the way that they have.

Albert Schumacher

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Leon Wieseltier

We've had really good teams in every sport, we've just never been able to get ahead of the private schools.

Chuck Elkins

The wife is still at the guest house at which they had originally been booked in and she is being attended to by private doctors.

Leon Mbangwa

If a private company were to start activities in the area.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We decided to use private money so we could use private architects. I realized this is the way we get a great building.

Dede Wilsey

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

Salma Hayek

The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'.

Clifford Longley

This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.

David Abney

But private banking has never been big here. People prefer to manage their own assets, usually in banks.

Jason Rogers

In private they're talking big time about England's reverse swing and this is a huge hurdle for them to overcome.

Michael Slater

We had so many great ideas, but not enough money to make a lot of it happen, so we came up with the idea to get private funding to help.

Laure Swanson

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.

Brad Woodhouse

Early in your interviews, you denied being touched in your private areas, didn't you?

Thomas Mesereau

It was very eccentric to be living here in the only private house at the time.

Gillian Tindall

We'll never have enough money to do everything that needs to be done unless we are really aggressively using partnerships and different methods for blending private and public interests.

Reese Fayde

Any attempt to exclude the private school children from full participation in the athletic association is simply not fair.

Larry Bowman

We received tremendous enthusiasm to these investment offers from investors and we have closed Al-Arabi Private Equity Fund and robust response ensured early closure of the Energy City private placement.

Rashad Janahi

We often need events like this to change the mindset. And it's very hard to stop private investors and entrepreneurs from seeking opportunity. It's an amazing part of the American spirit.

Mary Comerio

Now we're starting to enter into a new phase, which may be characterized as private-sector or space tourism.

Roger Launius

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

We just go by the book and conduct thorough inspections, and it is our duty to maintain that regulatory framework. It is up to private-sector companies what decisions they make.

Heizo Takenaka

The only people who support the use of eminent domain for private development are cities that use it, developers and businesses that benefit from it and planners who plan it. Everyone else hates it.

Dana Berliner

The public sector should set and enforce the homeland security standards that the private sector must meet.

Jack Gerard