Public Quotes · Page 37

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.

— Pete Burns

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

— David Shuster

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of…

— Douglas Wilder

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

— Bill Dedman

“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.”

— Henry A. Giroux

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

— Joni Mitchell

“all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn’t be feeding at the public trough”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

— Nate Silver

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend…

— Madhuri Dixit

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful.…

— Ai Weiwei

If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like…

— Colm Meaney

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is…

— Frank Church

By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we…

— Leslie Moonves

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached…

— Robert Dallek

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school…

— Erich Bergen

I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went…

— Thomas Mallon

I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not…

— Candis Cayne

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance,…

— Randy Jackson

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities…

— Margaret Hamburg

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated…

— Natalie Massenet

Msnbc.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records…

— Bill Dedman

“She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, suddenly aware of the iconic…

— William Gibson

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

— Tim Walz

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

— George Eliot

“Law enforcement ignoring crimes reported to them by the public is an illegal activity that they routinely engage in.”

— Steven Magee

Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public.

— Nagma

I never care about myself out in public when I get the paparazzi swarming me.

— Tori Spelling

Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

— Norma Shearer

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

— Harry Enfield

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The police have turned into an entity the public video record because they do not trust them.”

— Steven Magee

If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

— Tullian Tchividjian

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

— Seamus Heaney

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

— Junius

“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.”

— Steven Magee

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

— Priscilla Ahn