Quotes About Public

My family has never suggested to me that my identity or value to them depended on my station in life. I knew that they did not consider me any more or less valuable because I held some political office. They valued me as a husband and father, whether or not I won an election. Nor did they regard holding office on Capitol Hill or in the Missouri statehouse as the epitome of success. Quite the contrary, my family had endured numerous personal sacrifices because of my public positions.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

A PRESIDENT WEARS MASKS

If a president whipped up the crowd, "the passions…not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment," wrote Madison in Federalist No. 49. "But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government."37

It was as though in a community susceptible to alcoholism, the Russians placed liquor bottles on every doorstep, and the press, the public, and Donald Trump encouraged everyone to open the door.

This is my working definition of history: History is the past reconstructed interactively by the present through argued evidence in public discourse. There are times we can get only alternative perspectives on the same event. (There are always alternative perspectives, even when we do not hear them.) But history as argued public reconstruction is necessary to reconstruct our past in order to project our future.

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.