Public Quotes

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

I believe in public services.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

I was born into public service.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall.

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.