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The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.
Thomas Frank

Hero, After, Making

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan

Future, Vision, Ourselves

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
Ben Quayle

Work, Yourself, True

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.
Salma Hayek

Real, Personal, Making

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer

Human, Put, Able

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.
Peter Singer

Powerful, Dark, Often

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
Peter Singer

Life, Politics, Money

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Meryl Streep

Perception, Meet, Industry

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.
Amanda Seyfried

Voice, Seems, Involved

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
Jacqueline Bisset

Reality, Image, Nearer

No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.
Rashida Jones

Work, Definitely, Sector

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Rashida Jones

Care, Control, Talent

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague

Politics, Same, Again

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
William Hague

Trust, Great, Power

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros

Work, Good, Guilt

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
Jessica Simpson

Career, Devil, Bargain

When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.
Jenny McCarthy

Time, Son, Talk

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
Anna Quindlen

Health, Women, Men

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
Anna Quindlen

Husband, Saying, Her

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
Elizabeth Warren

Waiting, School, Married

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
Dennis Prager

Person, Write, Later

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
Sandra Bullock

Desire, Lifestyle, Dress

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
Shannon Hoon

Rock, Control, Guitar

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

Wisdom, Fool, Human

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.
Katherine Heigl

Everything, Boring, Eye

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
Katherine Heigl

Mistakes, Keep, Again

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand

Hurt, Enjoy, Stage

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham

Great, Reality, Wonderful

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Family, Business, Sad

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