The mainstream media is really the key, the gatekeeper. It effectively ensures that truth stays in the dark, and lies and distractions remain in the bright lights of public interest.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.
I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.
I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again.
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
