Public Quotes

Don't forget to support your public library.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

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.

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

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.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the story.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.