Public Quotes

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

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.

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.