The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.
All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.
At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
