Public Quotes

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.