To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.
I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.
