Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.
When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
