300 Quotes on Public

• What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

  Author: Adolph Zukor

• The public is never wrong.

  Author: Adolph Zukor

• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

  Author: James Young

• Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.

  Author: Isaac Yeffet

• But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

  Author: Bill Wyman

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

  Author: Frank Woolley

• Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

  Author: John Wise

• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

  Author: John Wise

• Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

  Author: Bob Wise

• There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

  Author: Terri Windling

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  Author: Walter Winchell

• The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

  Author: Pete Wilson

• I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

  Author: Kenneth Wilson

• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  Author: James Wilson

• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  Author: James Wilson

• In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

  Author: James Wilson

• There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

  Author: James Wilson

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  Author: Walter Williams

• It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

  Author: Shirley Williams

• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• A public is a necessary fiction.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Author: Montel Williams

• You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

  Author: Montel Williams

• If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world.

  Author: Montel Williams

• What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

  Author: Larry Williams

• Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

  Author: Juan Williams

• What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

  Author: Esther Williams

• Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

  Author: George Will

• I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

  Author: Jason Wiles

• But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  Author: Larry Wilcox

• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

  Author: Benjamin Whorf

• You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

  Author: Eli Whitney

• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

  Author: Ryan White

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

  Author: Ryan White

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

  Author: Ryan White

• Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

  Author: Byron White

• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Author: Bryan White

• AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

  Author: Edward Whitacre, Jr.

• I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

  Author: Wil Wheaton

• Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

  Author: William Weld

• We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

  Author: Robert Welch

• NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.

  Author: Pat Weaver

• Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• The public are not stupid.

  Author: Pete Waterman

• I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

  Author: George Washington

• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• Public influence is the real government of the world.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

  Author: Earl Warren

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place.

  Author: Earl Warren

• On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

  Author: David Warner

• Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

  Author: Charles Warner

• I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

  Author: Francis Walsingham

• Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

  Author: Tom Walsh

• Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

  Author: Greg Walden

• In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

  Author: Sol Wachtler

• Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

  Author: Voltaire

• The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

  Author: Voltaire

• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

  Author: John Vinocur

• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

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

  Author: Jacques Verges

• Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

  Author: Conrad Veidt

• 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 the public.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• The public be damned.

  Author: William Vanderbilt

• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  Author: Jack Valenti

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

  Author: Jack Valenti

• 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.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

  Author: Peter Ueberroth

• Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

  Author: Mark Twain

• The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

  Author: Mark Twain

• I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Author: Harry Truman

• A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

  Author: Bess Truman

• I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

  Author: Robert Towne

• Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

  Author: Rip Torn

• I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

  Author: Henry Thomas

• Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

  Author: Evan Thomas

• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  Author: Dylan Thomas

• There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• 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.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

  Author: Henry Tanner

• Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

  Author: David Talbot

• I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

  Author: David Talbot

• On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.

  Author: David Talbot

• I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek.

  Author: Max Sydow

• The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

  Author: Herbert Swope

• I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

  Author: Taylor Swift

• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

  Author: Paul Sweeney

• My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

  Author: Donna Summer

• When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

  Author: Donna Summer

• We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  Author: Bart Stupak

• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Author: Joseph Story

• I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

  Author: Michael Storm

• James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

  Author: Tom Stoppard

• I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

  Author: I. Stone

• To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

  Author: Harlan Stone

• There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

  Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

• If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

  Author: George Stigler

• I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

• Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

  Author: Steven Squyres

• If the public likes you, you're good.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

  Author: Gerry Spence

• And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Author: Albert Speer

• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Author: Al Spalding

• Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

  Author: John Sousa

• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  Author: George Soros

• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  Author: George Soros

• The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

  Author: Todd Solondz

• I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  Author: Tony Snow

• It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.

  Author: Thomas Smith

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  Author: L. Smith

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  Author: L. Smith

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

  Author: Kate Smith

• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

  Author: George Smith

• Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

  Author: Adam Smith

• The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  Author: John Sladek

• My art became very public.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

  Author: Ron Silver

• Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

  Author: Ron Silver

• If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

  Author: Maria Shriver

• So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

  Author: Clare Short

• If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

  Author: Thaksin Shinawatra

• I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

  Author: M. Sherwood

• We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• 58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

  Author: Norma Shearer

• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

  Author: Albert Shanker

• From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

  Author: John Shadegg

• I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

  Author: Robert Service

• And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

  Author: Richard Serra

• The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

  Author: Hazel Scott

• Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

  Author: Peter Schuyler

• So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

  Author: Tom Scholz

• The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

  Author: Tom Scholz

• We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  Author: John Sayles

• There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

  Author: George Ryan

• I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

  Author: Rosalind Russell

• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

  Author: Dora Russell

• One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

  Author: John Ruskin

• People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

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