Public Quotes

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Well, you know, like, I don't really give a f**k what the general public think.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

We rise by lifting others.

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

There is no higher religion than human service.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

The public library is the great equaliser.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.