What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
The public improves the speaker's speech.
Who serves the public, serves no one.
The course of business shapes public opinion.
Regis has a great rapport with the American public.
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret dip...
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
Public education is an investment in our future.
I'm not a typical public school boy.
For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, bu...
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the g...
To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable o...
I lost interest in being in the public eye.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
