I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.
I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
People have made a public career out of fighting government. They slam the government and they try to destroy the bargaining rights of government employees. This is an era of unfounded anger toward government. It needs to be brought into check.
It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
I have been a transportation leader and advocate my entire public career.
That's when it becomes a business. When you've been public a long time, when it's a career. You do certain films, you sell them.
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
