“The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?” InterestLinesTroubleSecurityFiguresObjectsTrumpEssentialsDrawsClaimsPressesGenuineMinistersTensionPrivacyFundExpensesSheetsMistressTaxpayersCabinetsMisusePublic InterestPublic FiguresSatin Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.” KindSpeakInterestPayQualityClaimsMinistersAestheticPrivilegedPledgeSympatheticPersonal ExperiencesRigorClose Relationship Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.” WellsSaidShowsTodayInformationClaimsPressesMinistersConferencesPress Conferences Author:David Letterman
“The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.” MadeProblemClaimsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterRefugeeOrbsHungarians Author:Martin Schulz
“We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.” WorldMindHandsMightArtistChanceTalkingAchievePoliticianClaimsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterBirthright Author:Stephen Fry
“I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.” FeelsGodNightVoiceToo MuchHeardAtheismBedEatingClaimsMinistersRevelationsDisorderPizza Author:Jerry Falwell