We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. Hinton

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Nicolas de Chamfort

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
Matt Damon

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.
Sandra Cisneros

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

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Edwin Louis Cole

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
Stokely Carmichael

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew

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.
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.
Ben Stiller

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

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere

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

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
Kevin James

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart

All you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart