Munira Mirza Quotes

The public's not stupid.

People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

The public are not stupid.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.

The public is a bad guesser.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.

we need to work harder if we're going to continue what Carl Sagan saw as a new Renaissance of discovery. One way is by explaining to the Congress and the public why it is in our national interest to get this work funded. We can win this – and do what is right by the American people – if we can get the public to understand what's at stake.

Congress is not very good at explaining complex legislation to the public.

The public wants a solemn ass as a President. And I think I'll go along with them.

This is a classic case of using the “bully pulpit.” We got the public to think about the issue. And more of them came to the same basic conclusion I had—that this is about fairness.