Public Affairs Quotes

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We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.