Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Dan Quayle

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Brian Eno

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Bernard Hinault

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

Bill Halter

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

Benigno Aquino III

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

Bristol Palin

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

Gavin Newsom

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Gloria Steinem

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Don Marquis

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Jennifer Granholm

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

Hjalmar Branting

Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.

Mark McKinnon

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Brigitte Bardot

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

Bob Corker

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Warren E. Burger

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Wendell Phillips