Public Quotes

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

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

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

The public has become my fairy godmother.