Quotes About Public

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.