Public Quotes

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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.