Quotes about Public

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

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

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

When I see teenagers out in public with their families, holding back, refusing to walk with mom and dad, ashamed to be seen as part of a family, I have to admit that I have acted that way myself, at times, with regard to my Christian inheritance. A hapless and mortally embarrassed adolescent lurked behind the sophisticated mask I wrote in my twenties: faith was something for little kids and grandmas, not me.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.