Public Quotes

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

The best place to find things: the public library.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

I've never had a very great public life.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public