Quotes About Public

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

Politicians play on our fears to manipulate us.

Es más fácil soportar la mala conciencia que la mala fama.

The word personality comes from the Latin persona, which means "mask." In the public we all wear masks, and this has a positive function.

People who wear their hearts on their sleeves out in society are tiresome and embarrassing. Their sincerity notwithstanding, it is hard to take them seriously.

Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timings, the contributions of others, the teachers who helped us along the way, the whims of the public in need of something new. Our tendency is to forget all of this and imagine that any success stems from our superior self.

Primero tendrás que demostrar que eres menos inhibido que tu público: que irradias una sexualidad peligrosa, no temes a la muerte, eres deliciosamente espontáneo. Aun un indicio de estas cualidades hará pensar a la gente que eres más poderoso de lo que en verdad eres.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

Maybe so, but in politics how things look is often more important than what they are.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

the business of statesmanship is to invent new terms for institutions which under their old names have become odious to the public.

Certainly some researchers are thinking more realistically about the market's prospects and reaching better-informed positions on its future, but these are not the names that grab the headlines and thus influence public attitudes.

traditional economic approaches fail to examine the role of public beliefs in major economic events—that is, narrative. By incorporating an understanding of popular narratives into their explanations of economic events, economists will become more sensitive to such influences when they forecast the future. In doing so, they will give policymakers better tools for anticipating and dealing with these developments.

It may seem odd that the term unemployment rate did not receive more coverage in the 1930s, but the lack of coverage may reflect the public's lack of familiarity with its quantitative representation. They did not yet clearly differentiate between involuntary unemployment and laziness and pauperism. In contrast, today's narratives focus on blameless unemployment, the unemployment of those sincerely trying to find a job.

As Smith put it: "Every individual . . . neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . . . he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."5

Israeli credibility is equally suspect, if not more so, in the Middle East, Europe, and maybe significant elements of the U.S. public. An act of war based principally on information provided by a third party is risky in the extreme. U.S. and Israeli interests are not always the same.

Diana would have been surprised by the public's unbelievable response to her death, and even more surprised that ten years later this interest has not waned. But then they don't make them like that very often, do they. --Lord Jeffrey Archer

Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.

the FBI has been investigating the firm for over a year. Shortly after their stock went public, they got a tip that the market listing was fraudulently overstated in connection with the IPO.

There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.

Sure, writing has its moments of sublimity - grasping after the ineffable, realizing something just out of reach - yet at every instance modulated by the chronic substratum of shame about having taken a dump in public. - Humiliation Artists

Sure, writing has its moments of sublimity - grasping after the ineffable, realizing something just out of reach - yet at every instance modulated by the chronic substratum of shame about having taken a dump in public.

I had a moment to visualize Larry out in the dark all alone, unarmed except for his cross. The thought made my skin cold. I opened my mouth to yell at him and closed it. Never dress anyone down in public unless it's an object lesson. I said, Any tracks? I gave myself a dozen brownie points for yelling. Do I look like Tonto? Beside the ground is just grass and it's been so dry lately. I don't think there'd be any tracks.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. —Benjamin Franklin, 1722