All Quotes

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
‐‐ E. E. Cummings

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
‐‐ Samuel Alito

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.
‐‐ Robert Zoellick

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.
‐‐ Conrad Black

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.
‐‐ Thomas E. Mann

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
‐‐ Suze Orman

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.
‐‐ Jim Crace

Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'
‐‐ Steven Bochco

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
‐‐ Jo Brand

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
‐‐ Kenneth Baker

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
‐‐ Bethany McLean

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.
‐‐ Max Baucus

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.
‐‐ Joanna Garcia

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
‐‐ John Boyle O'Reilly

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.
‐‐ Rick Majerus

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
‐‐ Frank Gifford

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
‐‐ Pete Rozelle

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
‐‐ Kurt Angle

Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didn't want to lose another top performer.
‐‐ Kurt Angle

Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
‐‐ George Boole

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
‐‐ Aristotle

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goats. Now there are food shortages, so they're very thin. But traditionally, they are very strong and muscular. They grow sorghum, okra, a bit of corn, some peanuts. If they need money, they'll sell one of their animals or sell some sorghum.
‐‐ Tom Catena

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
‐‐ A. R. Ammons

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.
‐‐ Marin Cilic

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead