I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“On the sixth of September, 1901, President McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz at Buffalo. Immediately an unprecedented campaign of persecution was… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“If the spread of Pakistani cuisine is the single greatest improvement in British public life over the past half-century, it is also… — Christopher Caldwell Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These… — Jim Kolbe Copy Share Image
If you attack stupidity you attack and entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will… — Samuel Marchbanks Copy Share Image
As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“...rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as… — Mizuko Ito Copy Share Image
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were,… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as… — Preneet Kaur Copy Share Image
“list could be much longer. It is unpleasant to have to ask these questions. It is not easy to think about the… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists,… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
