Public Quotes

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

The public seldom forgive twice.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

I've learned a lot about being in the public eye. I'm certainly handling things more maturely now, I'm not getting as scared as easily.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

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

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.