Public Quotes

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.