The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.