Public Private Quotes

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

There is no such thing as a private institution in America; there is no such thing as a public institution. Private institutions go after public money and public institutions go after private money.

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

Government power, juxtaposed to private power, is a balance.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

The private-public partnership models that have been made in the area of health - we really need to adopt those in the area of education.

I would argue that in the cyber arena, the need for private sector partnership is higher than really anywhere else of any program we have. So, the reality is we couldn't do what we do without the private sector, and vice versa.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.