I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.
I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.
Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
