It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
The police are the public and the public are the police
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have been hacked. They are not serving the best interests of the American public.
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance. " If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.
In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have been. . . it wouldn't have been tolerated, because people don't want things to get shaken up.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power
Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.
There is a price, which you have to pay. You are 24 hours on the job, if you go out in public.
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless. . . The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience only having one type of emotion and one type of reaction. If they have anything other than laughter, it's a failure. That's an absurd thing for a human to try to seek. The main thing to realize is that whatever I say, it's my truth and I believe in it, and if I don't get a laugh off that, then it's not working.
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
I'm a horrible public speaker.
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.