Public Quotes

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.