No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Herbert Hoover

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

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

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel De Cervantes

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
George Soros

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Aleister Crowley

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

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

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

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

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
Jeremy Rifkin

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
Jeremy Rifkin

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Jeremy Rifkin