Public Quotes

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.