Quotes About Public

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

Webster wrote, that "an individual forming part of a public force, and acting under the authority of his Government, is not to be held answerable" for acts authorized by his sovereign.

The electorate collaborated in its own disenfranchisement. In the public's view, all politicians were corrupt, all civil servants inept, and every government little more than a Mafia plus an army. Once the public had been persuaded to cut the state down to size, the real Mafias took over.

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

He was convinced that public service and private misery were inextricably linked.

anyone who identifies him/herself publicly as a "change agent" is self-convicted of incompetence. Changes will certainly occur as a result, but they are not likely to be the changes desired.

Commenting to reporters regarding polls—I've always been fond of dogs, and they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles.

When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Kerry was saddled with more baggage than a curbside porter at Dulles airport.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

That is the night I made a commitment to myself that I would pursue a life in public affairs.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a small boy broke his arm in the chaos.