Quotes About Public

There are some players who lacked respect for me. There were some things said in public that should not have been said, not in interviews.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.

I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'

We've got ourselves into a situation where government service is somehow seen to be a political act rather than an act of civic duty or of public service.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses

So far as we know, no pollster has asked the public, "Are you getting your money's worth for the more than 40 percent of your income being spent on your behalf by government?" But

If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions.

Higher government spending will not lead to more rapid monetary growth and inflation if additional spending is financed either by taxes or by borrowing from the public. In that case, government has more to spend, the public has less. Higher government spending is matched by lower private spending for consumption and investment. However

government to force people to act against their own immediate interests in order to promote a supposedly general interest.

The public at large thinks that government is too big.

Why is it that able, public-spirited people produce such different results according to whether they operate in the political or the economic market? Why is it that if a random sample of the people who read this essay and are not at present in Washington were to replace those who are in Washington, our policies would very likely not be improved? That is the real puzzle for me.

And no matter how accomplished one may be, the hard work is to no avail if one doesn't have the proper clothes in which to appear in public.

Why suffer in front of so many people?

Public taste is as fickle as a child's attention span

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.