Public Quotes

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.