Quotes About Public

Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I'm actually just a terrible husband and a terrific exec producer. We just actually stay together for our careers. We look to the Clintons.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

I'm terrified of performing live.

The day that you walk out in front of 30,000 people and don't get nervous is probably the day to give it up. It's inspiring to be a little terrified.

I love music, I love to sing, but I am terrified of singing in public.

I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

I think that we have strayed into very dangerous territory where people are not allowed to express a negative opinion.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.

Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.

If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.

When I was director of public prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a first-rate counter-terrorism team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence services to defeat and disrupt terrorism.