Quotes of: Public-life Keyword

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Sophia Bush

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

William Blackstone

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Andrew Jackson

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

James Bovard

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Noam Chomsky

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

Brendan Gleeson

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Placido Domingo

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Ben Stiller

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Zadie Smith

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

James K. Polk

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Felix Adler

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

Flavor Flav

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Fred Thompson

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.

Grover Cleveland

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Charles Rosen

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

Claire Tomalin

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

Henry Rollins