Public Focus Quotes

The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

It's part of being an elite player, you get attention.

The people’s priorities are our priorities. The people’s concerns are our concerns.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

For the first thirty years it [the House of Representatives] was the controlling branch of the government, and the one of whose action the public eye was fixed.

Yeah, that'll excite the media, what role will Bill [Clinton] have, versus the [Donald] Trump story. But in all of this, the key to remember is that we're not talking about media.

When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.