Quotes About Public

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled. No man's life,liberty, and property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

But now a thought occurs to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. If some other biographies I have read had stopped with the ancestry until a like event occurred, it would have been a felicitous thing, for the reading public. How does it strike you? AWFUL

The 'Memphis Avalanche' reports that the Professor's course met with pretty general approval in the community; knowing that the law was powerless, in the actual condition of public sentiment, to protect him, he protected himself.

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR--[Written about 1870.]

Writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we 'modify' before we print.