Public Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Public education is an investment in our future.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.