Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Nicolas Chamfort

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Noam Chomsky

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Bill Drayton

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

Jeb Bush

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

Jamie Oliver

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Bill Gates

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Mackenzie King

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Paul Farmer

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Sarah Brady

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Steve Forbes

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

James Cronin

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kinky Friedman

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Meg Whitman