Public Quotes

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public eye long enough they're going to try and find a scandal.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

[Donald] Trump wasn't even in public life back in 2002-2003. There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other no matter what he thought about it.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.