Public Quotes

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

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.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.