Quotes of: Public-affairs Keyword

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Lee Child

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

William H. Macy

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

The Confessions of a Misfit

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

Don Tapscott

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Leaders' Watchwords

Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of c...

Jonathan Zittrain

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Ron Chernow

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Stephen Harper

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

Tina Brown

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Kevin James

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Ludwig von Mises

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Louise Slaughter

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Lysander Spooner

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Rene Redzepi

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

Noah Feldman

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

Will Arnett

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

William Shatner

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

DeForest Soaries