Quotes About Public

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

You can't cheat the public for long.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

I'm am not a great man I am just a man who has ideas and forces them on to the public via the Internet.

If sex were shoes, I'd wear you out. But I wouldn't wear you out in public.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

Theyre talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place thats used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna cant even smoke in bed.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

We never rehearse the full time. Yesterday we rehearsed only ten minutes. I don't want him to rehearse 30 minutes [of silence]. Why? Because from my performance experience, I realize that you absolutely have to rely on the energy of the public. If you just sit [in] the empty space for the 30-minute rehearsal, this is pure torture.