Public Life Quotes

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.