They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem.

I’m angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn’t have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

I don’t know if a penny’s dropped somewhere, but you’ve had ‘Lark Rise to Candleford,’ you’ve had ‘Cranford,’ you’ve had ‘Last Tango in Halifax,’ you’ve had ‘Call the Midwife’… I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

High heels are a short (theist) woman’s (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

Actually I don’t choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona – this thing, this face, this person who writes this music… I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn’t know who they were.

Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues surrounding their research with those who are concerned.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

I think the industry finally gets it. They’ve lost the connection with the American public, and they’ve got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they’re singing. I think you really have to think about what you’re singing. You have to make the public believe what you’re singing. And in order to do...

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he’s accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into use the high-pressure engine. This has so far been my reward from the public; but should this be all, I...

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It’s just very public when they fail.

I don’t often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation – itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust – marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc....

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

El artista no tiene ningún derecho moral para dejarse llevar a un abstracto nivel medio, para hacer que su obra sea más comprensible, más accesible. Esto no acarrearía otra cosa que la decadencia del arte, cuando en realidad esperamos su florecimiento, creemos en las posibilidades potenciales y aún no desarrolladas del artista y también en...

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, ‘the public option,’ or ‘a public option,’ you’ll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

I believe the public’s confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Saddam Hussein’s trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

Simply as a writer of books I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

I don’t know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

One thing you’ll learn when you’re in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there’s really no bottom to where they’ll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it – a...

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That’s where the action is. And it’s the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you’re not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, ‘Thank God...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

We are going to go to referendum because our question is to the public.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They’re able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I’m a liberal – I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

I like to talk. That’s why I can’t karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space.