Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.
I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.