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Quotes About Private

I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
~ John McCain
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
~ Edward Herrmann
It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.
~ Ruth Rendell
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.
~ Suze Orman
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
~ Sam Shepard
For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
~ Ted Cruz
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
~ David Byrne
I'm a very guarded person, very controlled person.
~ Erika Jayne
'Secret Life' is my guilty pleasure.
~ Jordan Fisher
Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. —Matthew 6:4
~ Gary Chapman
There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
~ George Eliot
The major thus-far-unframed effect is that runaway exponential accumulation of wealth share tends to kill off the provision of public resources that makes a satisfying and healthy private life possible.
~ George Lakoff
Conservatives deny that the private depends on public resources. Citing Ronald Reagan's credo that "The Government is the Problem," conservatives are constantly trying to eliminate public resources and to privatize as much as possible.
~ George Lakoff
Private enterprise and private life depend on nurturant morality, but so does freedom in American life. Freedom is what public resources provide—freedom in a way that we take for granted but that needs to be brought out in the open.
~ George Lakoff
The private depends on the public. Public resources make private life possible.
~ George Lakoff
But for conservatives, the very idea that the private depends on the public is anathema—immoral.
~ George Lakoff
It is a fact that the private depends on the public—perhaps the most central fact of American democracy—and yet strict conservatives either can't see it or see it as a form of immorality so fundamental that it must be defeated at all costs.
~ George Lakoff
Connect the private-depends-on-the-public concept to something that conservatives will understand: freedom.
~ George Lakoff
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
~ Thomas Frank
I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years. That's not government that does that.
~ Dick Cheney
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
~ David Herbert Donald
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
~ Peter Zumthor
I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It's every kind of cross-training you can do.
~ Andy Cohen
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
~ Hamish Bowles