Quotes of: American-public Keyword

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

Sara Paxton

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

Alan Bennett

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Arnold Bennett

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

Alec Issigonis

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.

Allen Lane

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Arlen Specter

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

Al Franken

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Joe Eszterhas

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Tony Snow

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

Will Self

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

Kathleen Wynne

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

David Duffield

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Vladimir Putin

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Victoria Woodhull

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

William Blake

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Walter Cronkite

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

Wang Jianlin

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Wolfgang Schauble

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Yuri Milner