The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use.
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes
Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!
