Public Quotes
6719 quotes by 4112 authors
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
— Dean Acheson
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great…
— Paul Auster
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that…
— Neil Armstrong
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed…
— Chester A. Arthur
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Dare to risk public criticism.
— Mary Kay Ash
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is…
— Julian Assange
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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
— Alfred Austin
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any…
— Charles Babbage
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it…
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need…
— Jensen Ackles
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
— Lord Acton
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
— Joan Baez
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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
— Alvin Adams
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know…
— Josephine Baker
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
— Russell Baker
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to…
— Russell Baker
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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