#pub

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#fool #going #make #probably #publish

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#done #government #guarantee #guaranteed #i

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#find #found #grow #life #older

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#american public #chance #conferences #his #mind

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows. ↗

— John Doolittle

#getting #heard #hoping #newspapers #outlandish

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. ↗

— Rita Dove

#capable #i #i can #larger #laureate

The media cause more problems than they do good. For the most part, the public is very soft. You live in a dream world. You have no idea what goes on on the other side of the world, the harsh realities of what these people are doing to themselves and our guys, and there are certain things that need to be done to take care of them. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#cause #certain #certain things #doing #done

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#hate #i #life #my own #own