Quotes of: Public-opinion Keyword

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Carroll Quigley

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Bob Ehrlich

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Elliott Abrams

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.

Kevin Rudd

The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

Peter Mullan

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Roland Joffe

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Alexander Downer

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

Georges St-Pierre

I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.

Pete Visclosky

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

Elliott Smith

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

Carolyn McCarthy

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Julie Bishop

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Douglas Wilder

I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.

Gregorio Sablan

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

Jim Matheson

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Joseph Stiglitz

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

John Vinocur

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

David Dinkins

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

Jackie Evancho