Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Konstantin Levin regarded his brother as a man of immense intellect and culture, as generous in the highest sense of the word,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization seems to be incapable of producing people endowed with imagination, intelligence, and courage. In practically every country there is a… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
“man! Can you believe they actually allow this stuff to be sold over there? Glad we got laws against that crap in… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“As far as the people in NASA’s public affairs office were concerned, there was entirely too much conversation about balls and urine… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica;… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image