Quotes About Public

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Public opinion: a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow, with its head in the clouds eating air, and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.

I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.

I was on the tube the other day and it was after the Chelsea match and everyone was going crazy screaming across at each other. I just can't imagine ever getting that excited about it!

I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

When I'm in London I always travel by public transport - I catch the Tube and the Heathrow Express.

With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.

It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.

I've had a tummy tuck - we all know that.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn't necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he'll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.