Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.
I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.
I did a play in New York at the public theater, a Shakespeare play, and M. Night Shyamalan, who is the writer/director of 'The Village,' came and saw me in the play and asked to go to lunch afterwards.
If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.
I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
