Public Quotes · Page 28

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

— Noreena Hertz

“Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

— Craig Brown

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

— Chelsea Clinton

Public scrutiny is a part of the profession. And I kind of enjoy it.

— Pulkit Samrat

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be…

— Jenny Shipley

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

— Robert Casey

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

— H. Jon Benjamin

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to…

— Preston Manning

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the…

— Tito Jackson

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to…

— Rick Rubin

Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very…

— Bill de Blasio

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion.…

— Bart Stupak

During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other…

— Monica Crowley

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they…

— Reid Ribble

“Maana halisi ya falsafa ya 'Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu', au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo…

— Enock Maregesi

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…

— Oscar Wilde

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque…

— Anonymous

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids…

— Brett Ratner

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume…

— James D. Watson

“We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental…

— Anonymous

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

— Tahj Mowry

Do I drink in public? Certainly I drink in public! Ben Cartwright wouldn't, but I do.

— Lorne Greene

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

— Benigno Aquino III

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

— Karrueche Tran

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

— Chris Jordan

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

— Lucy Larcom

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

— Michael Bloomberg

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

— Bill Dedman

Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

— Scott Gottlieb

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'

— Billy Evans

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

— Terry Wogan

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.

— Freddie Stroma

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

— James Nesbitt

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.

— John Paul Stevens

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

— Tom Selleck

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

— Noam Chomsky