Public Quotes

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

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.

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.

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

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

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

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

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class.

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.