Public Quotes

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.