logo

Quotes About Public

George Elsey put it succinctly: "You can't sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn't any public opinion. The public doesn't know anything about it; they haven't heard about it. The President must decide what he is going to do and do it, and attempt to educate the public to the reasons for his action.
~ Margaret Truman
Well all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
~ Margaret Truman
Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.
~ Unknown
All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed
~ Marie Brennan
Zoe didn't do public displays of affection, and she sure as hell didn't roll around on the floor with an aroused hottie who felt like he had a ten-foot pole in his pants. Where the hell had he been hiding that thing, anyway?
~ Unknown
Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.
~ Anonymous
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
~ Jim Rogers
Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.
~ Mariana Mazzucato
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
~ Amy Sedaris
Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.
~ David H. Murdock
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
~ Jose Andres
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
~ Naomi Klein
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
~ Herbert Hoover
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~ Ayn Rand
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
~ Abbie Hoffman
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.
~ Gore Vidal