Quotes of: Public-good Keyword

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Peter Jennings

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

Pauly Shore

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Rachel Field

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

Ron Fournier

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

Tamara Mellon

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

Kamala Harris

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

LaToya London

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

Mohamed ElBaradei

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Marshall McLuhan

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard M. Nixon

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Robert Peel

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

Ross Perot

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Robert Towne

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Spencer Abraham

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

Margaret Chase Smith

Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Neil Armstrong

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Noam Chomsky