Quotes About Public

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.

We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

I've received tweets that I suspect people wouldn't have sent in 2015. Is that a changed country or is that people who are unpleasant feeling emboldened to speak?

You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.