Public Quotes

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

Freedom is a public library.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

All actors should experience public failure.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.