#public affairs

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cannot #civilization #dramatic #emotional #fact

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. ↗

— Golda Meir

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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. ↗

— Tony Snow

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Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to. ↗

— David Frum

#also #anything #been #driven #extreme

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ever #lose #man #over #public

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. ↗

— Christy Romano

#columbia #degree #first #get #i

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. ↗

— Ron Silver

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