Public Quotes

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.