Public Quotes

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

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