Public Quotes

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

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.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.