Public Quotes

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.