Public Life Quotes

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

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.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.