Quotes About Public

But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

Anytime you have a relative in politics, you're going to catch some flack from people, because that's just part of the gig.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life.

Politicians can't be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

If I go out to dinner in Cincinnati, I know everyone's eyes are on me, or at least the people who recognize me. Eyes are on me, judging me, and I can't relax. I can't be at ease. I don't like that feeling.

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense. I basically grew up all my life without a car.

By day I am a historian, by night a broadcaster.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Because of so much fastness in the game, those who play hockey and those who have knowledge about it, they enjoy the game. But the normal public doesn't like it.

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.

I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out.

We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

Let's always remember that we work for the people of Louisiana. They honored us with the opportunity to serve.

I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.