Public Quotes

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific actions by and really for I guess the making of large amounts of money.

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

It's been a moment since I've done some public speaking. I find now-a-days it's best to keep quiet.

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

Public opinion wins wars.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical text and a somewhat private relationship to the Biblical text.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.