Public Quotes
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We govern what the public think about.
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Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.
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The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.
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Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
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I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow.
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
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Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.
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The plan was to keep the guys together and away from the public, ... The last thing we wanted was another big drama.
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I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
