Public Quotes

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.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

I pretty much grew up in public.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.