Public Quotes

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

I'm a horrible public speaker.