Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

George Washington

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Adam Hamilton

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Claire McCaskill

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

Hillary Clinton

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Ian Mckellen

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Lyn Nofziger

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.

Portia de Rossi

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Rebecca Solnit

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

Julia Child

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Chuck D

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Fry

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

Harvey Weinstein

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

John Bercow

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Earl Butz

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

Errol Flynn

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

Hillary Clinton

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry A. Kissinger

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

John Scalzi

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper