Quotes of: Public-good Keyword

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

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

Arlen Specter

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Anne Hull

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

E. M. Forster

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Roger Mudd

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Stockwell Day

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

Gary Clark, Jr.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Harold Brodkey

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.

Heather Brooke

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

Jim Talent

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Julia Glass

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Kyrsten Sinema