All Quotes

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.
‐‐ Susie Orbach

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
‐‐ Juan Cole

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
‐‐ Pat Riley

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
‐‐ Bob Etheridge

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
‐‐ Felipe VI of Spain

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

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

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
‐‐ Alfred Austin

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
‐‐ Dick Morris

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
‐‐ Frank B. Kellogg

Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.
‐‐ David Walton

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
‐‐ Nigel S. Wright

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.
‐‐ Jake Sullivan

Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.
‐‐ John Shimkus

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.
‐‐ Pallam Raju

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.
‐‐ Thomas Woods

Public radio has always been so powerless.
‐‐ Bob Edwards

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
‐‐ Henry Giroux

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
‐‐ Janet Napolitano

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
‐‐ James P. Hoffa

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.
‐‐ John Fleming

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
‐‐ Margaret Chase Smith

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

Public sharing is an important part of science.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer