Top 99 Public Life Quotes

I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

In the time I’ve spent in public life, one of the things I’ve learned is that some issues look a lot different when you’re actually in office compared to when you’re on the campaign trail.

After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those stories should have eliminated him from business, and from public life, long before 2016.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Everyone in public life should judge ideas on the quality of their contents, not the identity of their proponents. Doing so is the only truly fair way of doing things.

Roosevelt’s magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

I’m in the wrong racket if I didn’t want a public life.

It’s wonderful for me to see what ‘We Will Rock You’ has done. ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are the Champions’ have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated – they’ve become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that’s the last one, I don’t want to record anymore, I don’t want to do this any more, I don’t want to have a public life.

There’s the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it’s favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who’s onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can’t be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don’t make that distinction are dooooomed.

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

You don’t know how long you have in public life… I want to make the best of it while I’ve got the role.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

I like to think that I’m one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing – especially my political commentary.

The Princess’s so-called ‘time and space speech’ at the end of ’93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it’s called her retirement from public life but we’ve seen in fact it’s nothing of the kind.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I’ve got good reason to say no, and I think that’s being in public life.

For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world’s default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

I was outrageous on the ‘Moral Maze.’ The closest I sailed to the wind was when I almost outed a most saintly Cardinal in a talk on homosexuality in public life.

Standards in public life have decayed over time… Incompetence is the norm.

Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.

I’ve always told the truth. I’ve often been wrong – but I’ve never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don’t see the need to.

I’ve been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I’d had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

I’m still coming to terms with what it’s like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

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

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

Life after the White House found Dad enjoying having his grandchildren around and letting go of all the enormous burden he shouldered throughout his public life.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

I’ve also said you don’t rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference… obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

I thought, I’m out in my life, that doesn’t involve my public life.

My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.

Often, I’m up against both – position and money power. And yes, a system that needs to be more ‘woman-friendly.’ I believe these experiences will probably give birth to a more public life, where I can address the issues of women that need help in being heard, for I have understood what it is to be in that position.

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.