Quotes of: American-public Keyword

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

Al Pacino

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

Avi Rubin

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Andrew Vachss

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

Allison Williams

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

Bill Dedman

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

Isabel dos Santos

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Terry Wogan

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Val Kilmer

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Mark Cuban

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Jimmy Carter

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

James Fallows

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don't have to be particularly rational or cogentl...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!

Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human ...

Orson Scott Card

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I've sewn, on and on; it's a full year...

Soledad O'Brien