Top 1200 Public Affairs Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story with widespread public appeal, devote your best resources to it, say a quiet prayer, and swing for the fences.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.

In Bronxville, New York, we went to public school there, before London. Mother had a great belief in public school. She said it was very good for us to meet all the neighborhood kids.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.

With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

I graduated with a foreign affairs/Middle East studies degree with a minor in Arabic from UVA in 2002.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren't in some ways a turning away from the world.

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.