Public Quotes

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

The public are not stupid.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.