Public Forgetfulness Quotes

The public will forget the government before it is born.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

I had a slow couple of years and people forgot about me.

Hopefully, I've established a career, but you can be a big sensation one day, and the next day everyone's going, 'Who? ... Who?'

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

We forget how quickly the American people forget.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.