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.

When the private does well, there’s revenue for the public sector.

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on...

Our learning ought to be our lives’ amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and...

Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don’t see the point. I’m just not going to be one of those people...

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic – an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It’s not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only...

I’m not the ‘look at me’ kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I’m just not a private person. It’s not like I do things because I want things to be public; it’s just that’s my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn’t like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to...

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person – the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A...

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by...

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

There’s an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn’t mean everybody does.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

I’m looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

Every time I’m recognized in public, I’m super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous.

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes...

When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors’...

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I’m also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Scratch the surface of what’s socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to...

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

I… was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women’s movement. And I wasn’t at all. It put...

Unless you’re trying to make a movie on the sly, there’s no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you...

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the...

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that...

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower…I live still a collegiate student…and lead a monastic life, ipse...