Public Quotes

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

Public Speaking is very easy.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.