Public Quotes
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The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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Arguably it is also the most thoroughly misunderstood, especially by the lay reading public.
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
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The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.
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The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
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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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It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.
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Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
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The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
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Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
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When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
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The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.
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Public office is a public trust.
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
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If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.
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Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.
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What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
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Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
