Top 1200 American Public Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Who wants their life and everything they have done for the past 25 years dragged in front of the American public?

If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

I think the American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start.

Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.

Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public.

Donald Trump let the American public into every aspect of what it meant to be successful in America.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.