No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.
I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.
This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.
