When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
I think it's natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can, particularly if they believe that government tends to compromise.
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.
In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration...
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
