Public Quotes

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I've never been able to control my public image.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.