Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
