Public Quotes

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.