Pastoral Resources

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.