To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy.
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
Politicians are simply reflections of the public.
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.