#private citizen

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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#always #citizen #government #i #party

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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#chicago #citizen #city #i #i am