Quotes About Public

excluded from this collection of classic Solariana, whose only connection with the field was that for a lengthy period they researched public opinion, collecting the most ordinary views, the attitudes of non-specialists, and in this way demonstrated the astonishingly close relationship between changes in such views and processes simultaneously taking place among the ranks of scholars.

Bill Clinton has perhaps been the most amazing practitioner of truth management in public life. He's had to be. Beset by enemies willing to use any tool to do him in, he let the truth out like a fly fisherman plays out a line, delicately, artfully, with infinite finesse, never emitting more truth than necessary, struggling mightily to tell us what he could without admitting defeat.

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.

The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators...

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

self-deception as the preliminary to public deception is almost automatic. —WALTER LIPPMANN

But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.

The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.

The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

I love the big red bus!

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: It wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the macarena.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.