Public Quotes · Page 39

In boxing, as with other government-regulated activity, the integrity of public records should be preserved.

— Thomas Hauser

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

— Iris Apfel

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

— Amy Cuddy

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

— Geoff Mulgan

Effective stewardship of the public finances has to be at the heart of everything we do.

— Liz Kendall

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for…

— John Hickenlooper

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

— Sidney Hook

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news…

— Lowell Bergman

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian…

— Henry Giroux

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help…

— Glenn Greenwald

The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something…

— Roger Stone

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public…

— Ben Shapiro

I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that…

— Jon Kyl

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public…

— Bob Newhart

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a…

— Michael K. Powell

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and…

— Yuri Milner

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them -…

— Rick Perlstein

Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future…

— Paul Conroy

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes,…

— A. R. Rahman

Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be…

— Wadah Khanfar

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young…

— Henry Giroux

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I…

— Roger Clemens

I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big…

— Ban Ki-moon

I was very happy in Wipro; happier in Mindtree because I founded and took it public.

— Ashok Soota

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done…

— Edward Snowden

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

— Dan Pfeiffer

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

— Joyce Meyer

“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My mom is a public educator, and so teaching is sort of ingrained in me, in a way.

— Ariana DeBose

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based…

— Jed S. Rakoff

The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.

— Safak Pavey

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

— Alfred Doblin

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

— Niall Ferguson

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

— Kenneth Chenault

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well…

— Dwyane Wade

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.

— Frances Bean Cobain

Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.

— R. T. Rybak

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

— George C. Wolfe