Public Quotes

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.