I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
