Public Quotes

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

If the public likes you, you're good.

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

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The public always picks quality.

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

Public education is an investment in our future.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.