Quotes About Public

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about.

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

I don't think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

Lincoln had good reason to speak of slavery strictly in terms of preserving the Union: they were the only terms the white public was likely to accept.

New York law required that shipowners guarantee that each immigrant passenger would not, upon arrival, become a candidate for public welfare.

The British public schools have become, so to speak, the property of the British public, through alumni who have given themselves to England. But American private schools have remained for the most part "private." And, in the tradition of American private enterprise, which believes that a share of the profits should be plowed back into the corporation, American prep school alumni have given largely to the treasuries of their alma maters.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The public library was more accommodating;

The Union of the Russian People helped invent a new style of right-wing politics—novel not just for Russia but for most of the world—a politics in a new key oriented toward the masses, public spaces, and direct action, a fascism avant la lettre.