'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. — David Shuster Copy Share Image
We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character. — Pericles Copy Share Image
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. — Christy Romano Copy Share Image
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato Copy Share Image
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of… — Tony Snow 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
“The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“In my Toyota interviews, when I asked what distinguishes the Toyota Way from other management approaches, the most common first response was… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King 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
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Every man waits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate. Let us spend our leisure with our books,… — Poggio Bracciolini 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
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers. — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
