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

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Charlie Chaplin

Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay Ash

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry

No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
Richard Branson

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson

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

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller

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.
Marquis de Sade

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Richard M. Nixon