Public-Private Divide Quotes

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Political authority is problematic in Africa because of the blurry dividing line between the public and the private realm. Formal rules matter less than a series of informal institutions that regulate politics.

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

Government and business should remain distinct and separate, one directed from Washington, the other from New York.

It's very important that the government is close to the business community and that we understand their concerns. But at some point, the government needs to be a government.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.