Public Quotes
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.
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
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
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.
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.
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
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.
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
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
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.
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.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.
I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.
I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.
It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.