Quotes About Public

We broadcast one version of ourselves, cropped and filtered and out there for consumption. But the real person is hidden behind that.

You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

What few realize is that no writer is free to write exactly as he might wish. He is guided, to a great extent, by the tastes of readers and by the choices of editors. Of course, one can write whatever one wishes, but unless it conforms to the tastes of the public at the time, it will stay right on the author's shelf.

Two years ago he dodged newspaper men. Now he courts them.

Rather than trying to accomplish everything through its own budget, it would awaken public opinion and stimulate government action.

In Heaven's name, don't make this letter public, since, were you to do so, I fear my brethren of the Methodist Church might fear I had so far fallen from grace as to leave no hope of recovery.

Hamilton seldom published under his own name and drew on a bewildering array of pseudonyms. Such pen names were sometimes transparent masks through which the public readily identified prominent politicians. The fashion of allowing anonymous attacks permitted extraordinary bile to seep into political discourse, and savage remarks that might not otherwise have surfaced appeared regularly in the press.

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

These same banks, ironically, would shortly be hauled before the Pujo Committee as the abominable Money Trust. What the public wouldn't know was that the Money Trust had been forged, in part, by Washington itself in its quest for foreign influence.

Commodore Vanderbilt's death was a pivotal moment in the shift of business from family to public ownership—a transition rich in possibilities for Pierpont Morgan.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Endorsing still another form of government activism, Hamilton claimed that nothing had assisted Britain's industry more than its network of public roads and canals. He therefore touted internal improvements—what we would today call public infrastructure—to meld America's scattered regional markets into a single unified economy.

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.

Hamilton's first act in Philadelphia paid homage to Franklin. The sage had opposed salaries for executive-branch officers, hoping such a measure would produce civic-minded leaders, not government officials feeding at the public trough. Others

It was a rare case of Rockefeller boasting about his wealth, but it was clearly meant to lift public morale.

To safeguard the public interest, the government would become a minority stockholder in the bank and able to vote for directors.

Hamilton said, he would follow the classic path of a populist demagogue: "I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, danger

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

How can a president not be an actor?

For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.

Por primera vez en la historia de la Humanidad hay tantas autoras como autores; por primera vez nuestra voz es tan pública como la de ellos