Public Quotes

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

I have had a career in public service.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

I think I always enjoyed the energy of a crowd, of being onstage. It started when I was even younger doing public speaking at school and just kept going from there.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

I am a public library

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.