So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.
Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.