“the convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality.… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even… — Plato Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I feel like my public life isn't necessarily my own. I'm starting to get used to how to maneuver and operate in… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
“Lamentations about the tribulations of public life, followed by celebrations of the bucolic splendor of retirement to rural solitude, had become a… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic. — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
“Holiness does not come from self-worth. Holiness comes from the power and the enabling of the Holy Spirit through the grace of… — Matthew Robert Payne Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
