Public institutions play a critical role in supporting economic activity.

I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that’s nice, we’re also human beings.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

The public is a bad guesser

There’s no doubt that there’s a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don’t think the only alternative is to elect people with money.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history

A lot of men who have accepted – or had imposed upon them in boyhood – the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.

The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.

A public debt is a public curse.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he’s great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I’m truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can’t really put my finger on any huge impact she’s had.

Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn’t know stuff. She didn’t even finish her term.

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or ‘lift’ objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination

It’s too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

COVID-19 is a serious public health threat.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought

Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they’re able to do the job that the public want them to do

There are numerous who desire for the basic answers of principle or announcement. They are on the left and right. They are not bound to a solitary piece of the general public. They are psychological militants of the brain

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called ‘art’ in front of government buildings

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

But they also confuse two distinct occupations: cooks and chefs. Cooks do it at home for love. Chefs do it in public for money. Dinner parties are karaoke cheffery.

In order to accommodate me, in order to overcome so many centuries of cruelty and bad faith and genocide and fear, all the American institutions and all the American values, public and private, will have to change. The Democratic Party will have to become a different party

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

I’m not a very gregarious person. I can’t bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don’t like being recognized in public.

It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university – four years of not being in the public eye – and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened

I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you’re giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you’ve got to accept that. The trade-off between being on ‘Love Island’ and not being on ‘Love Island’ is very skewed into the positive.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn’t worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they’ve been leaving us. We’ll manage.

I’m wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that’s what it is when it comes down to the public level.

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect false weights and measures.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

The Tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until someone is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I’ll go along with them

And one of the first and most startling things you find out is, that every individual you encounter in the City of Washington … from the highest bureau chief, clear down to the maid who scrubs Department halls, the night watchmen of the public buildings… represents Political Influence.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Throughout my formal education, I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

An artist always knows everything he does. You know what I’m saying—all the records he starts and don’t end up in the public and just sit on the harddriver

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that’s just the best way to live.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries.

The main reason for the development of society and the happiness of the people is the gradual growth of the public spirit and the increase of public virtue

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

It is open for anyone to have freedom of speech, and I guess we can all play a role in trying to make a difference in the world. Particularly if your leader is not helping in that area.

I never called my work an ‘art.’ It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Thanks for the Bday wishes from my fans and supporters.. In return I’m dropping 2 songs 2 videos tonight.