Richard Nixon: Please excuse my golf outfit. It's the official uniform of the retired.
Q: I'm guessing this is not official. James Bond: Not even remotely. Q: So much for my promising career in espionage.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
