Public Quotes

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.