Public Quotes

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

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

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?