Quotes About Public

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.

I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power... because it's obvious that it's them I'm criticizing, but they can't show that in front of the cameras. It's quite funny sometimes.

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.

Executions must be a spectator sport.

The gulf between the private and public views of our countrymen is evidence of the power of the state. —Celâl Salik, Milliyet

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. —Addison.

According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age, wanted the return of a 'leader like Stalin'.

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.

When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.

Bingwen didn't argue. What good would it do? When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

Never mind,' said Mazer Rackham. 'The politicians are afraid of you, but they can't destroy your reputation yet. That won't be done until the historians get at you in thirty years.

When adults became defiant in public, no amount of evidence, however irrefutable, would make them change their minds.

I don't understand people who don't like their pictures taken," said Spunky. "If you can go out in public wearing your face, then how can it bother you for somebody to take a picture of that face?

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.