Quotes About Public

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.

Actors should remember they are public servants, really, and depend on the response of the people. And the public can be so fickle. That's why now I'm glad to be working in my trade.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios at all.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane.

The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.