Public Quotes

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

In America, public opinion is the leader

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.