The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
When people performing on the public's behalf feel intimidated, it's a sorry affair.
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.
When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.
In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.
I love that Hillary actually cares enough about the issues to study them and listen to people who are affected by them. She's gotta be one of the most knowledgeable and qualified people to ever run for president. She's been a woman in the public eye for decades now.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.
My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.