Quotes About Public

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

My impression of Abramovich is that he loves football, his club, and his players. He wants to know everything that is going on and is very passionate. Berlusconi, too, loves his club, but he was a man of the people and conducted his life in public.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Live broadcasting was something only done by the rich news organizations. So when you bring it to the masses, the public gets really excited.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.