Public Quotes

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.