Quotes About Public

Public opinion exists in any nation, but in our democracy it has a special power. The Revolution in America transformed it and gave it its modern significance.

In a republic, they believed, no person should be allowed to exploit the public's authority for private gain.

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

Journalism and popular fiction have merged, and the graphic and the plausible have become an end in themselves. The contemporary public plainly prefers mirrors to windows.

Since the reading skills of the American people are the lowest in the First World, the general public is always easy prey to manipulation by television.

If ever there was a people ripe for dictatorship it is the American people today. Should a homegrown Hitler appear, whose voice, amongst the public orders, would be raised against him in derision? Certainly no voice on television: 'Sorry, the guy has a lot of fans. Sure, we know he's bad news, but you can't hurt people's feelings. They buy soap, too.

Mrs. Grant was the wife of a hero—a butcher-hero, of course, but still a hero to the stupid public.

No one ever likes any president's appointments, including those appointed.

When I came up from Brighton by the train': a rich Guinness voice, a voice from a public bar.

because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin

Oh. Does Mississippi have some kind of grave-desecration statute? I know they differ from state to state." "Mississippi does, thank God. Anybody who comes across human remains in this state must report them. And a discovery like that stops whatever's going on around it. Even major construction. Doesn't matter whether the land is public or private.

Most Londoners did not know that, on average, their likenesses were transmitted forty times a day as they commuted to and from work, ran errands between buildings or simply window-shopped. The cameras were a legacy of IRA terrorism.

It was as if all of those hundreds of people were costumed for home, for themselves, not for the public promenades.

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.

I don't think I will ever cross-contaminate my private life and my family life with my public and professional worlds.

I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It's the best of both worlds.

Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

When you are in a family where there are two or three people in the limelight - like politics and acting - two worlds colliding like that, there will be times when obviously in the press or public eye, those opinions can collide and not match.

Health is a worldwide public good. It requires global action guided by a sense of global solidarity.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

Trump spoke badly about women... It sparked worldwide reactions.

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.