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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

But that's the beauty of being in the public eye - people are always going to have opinions and I respect that.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.

I'm definitely not an expert on public health.

I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

I take care to conduct myself formally in public and not be brash. That is a given for people in public life. But I'm very bohemian and informal when I'm with friends.

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

I have no desire to run for public office.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.