Public Quotes
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In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
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It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
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I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.
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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
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All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
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If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
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Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.
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I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
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Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid.
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The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.
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All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
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I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in Thailand and I'll ask if they've seen my films and they'll say, "No, but I know who you are and I like the way you look - I like the skinhead look."
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
