Public Quotes

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

I'm not such a public person.

I have had so much public support.