In Public Quotes

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

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

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.