Quotes About Public

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

It's time to elevate the debate in this country and allow the public to access the same neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan information that we in Congress rely on every day.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.