The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.
In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.
Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.