Public Quotes
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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
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The public must and will be served.
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You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.
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As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
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We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required.
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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. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
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Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.
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If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
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Defense Distributed is being penalized for trying to educate the public about 3-D guns.
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A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
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I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly.
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The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.
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All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.
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This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.
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You can't cheat the public for long.
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Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.
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For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.
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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
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The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.
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The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
