Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
