The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
Jack Kevorkian

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
Princess Diana

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Princess Diana

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie

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

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown

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?
John Ruskin