Public Role Quotes

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

I'm a civilian, a citizen.

I do not believe that being First Lady should prevent me from expressing my views.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

The economy is the creation of the personal initiative of private citizens….Public authorities also must play an active role in promoting increased productivity with a view to social progress and the welfare of all citizens.

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling. I would rather be known for the content of my character than for the project that I did.

But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

An actor's responsibility is to play a character truthfully. That's their responsibility. That's where it ends. If they choose to use their reach and accessibility in order to further something that matters to them, that's their choice and that's great - but it's not for anybody to choose it for them.

It is impossible to differentiate between what I say in my individual capacity from what I say as President.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

You are now public property, and ought to be where you can be reached by the people until you are inaugurated.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

I consider every attempt to induce women to think they have a just right to participate in the public duties of government as injurious to their best interests and derogatory to their character.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.