Public Quotes

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.