Public Quotes

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

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

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

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, Ive wrestled with that very question myself.

They’re all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody’s going.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.