I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn’t like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to...

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person – the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A...

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and...

Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don’t see the point. I’m just not going to be one of those people...

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic – an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

I’m looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

Every time I’m recognized in public, I’m super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes...

When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors’...

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I’m also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Scratch the surface of what’s socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to...

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by...

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

There’s an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn’t mean everybody does.

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that...

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower…I live still a collegiate student…and lead a monastic life, ipse...

It’s incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That’s because some of the media didn’t give the public the full story.

I… was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women’s movement. And I wasn’t at all. It put...

Unless you’re trying to make a movie on the sly, there’s no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you...

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the...

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

I mean, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I’m sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could...

My heart is closed, but open. Closed to one woman in particular, but open to the public. Guided tours are offered Monday through Friday 9-5.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people’s eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

I’ve got the public. I don’t care about the critics. I did at one time. I don’t any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don’t...

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state...

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It’s hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.