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...

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

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.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach...

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...

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...

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.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don’t have immediate...

I’m really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it’s really an...

Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

‘2016’ is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I’m not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public...

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who...

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.