Quotes About Public

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

the monopoly of coercion, such as the public protection of slave capital in the United States before the Civil War—get capitalized into the prices of the assets to which they are attached.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.

I am better than my reputation.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.