Public Quotes

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.