Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.