Public Quotes

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion.

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

Bernie Sanders talked about except he focused mainly on infrastructure. We are talking about energy and food as part of that and public transportation as part of that infrastructure.

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

...it is true that renewable energy is expensive and can't be done without public sector support, it is an important investment in the future.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I have to give credit to my trainer. He definitely kept me motivated in staying in shape... I've always been naturally curvy, but of course I had to get used to being in the public eye.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.