Public Quotes

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.