Public Record Quotes

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

President Trump's frequent, unfiltered use of his personal Twitter account as a means of official communication is unprecedented. If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

I've been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I'm confident that I've done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.

I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms.

It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United States and think that every single thing that you say or do can become a part of the public record? It just seems so stupid to me.

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

The press are the chroniclers of history as it is made.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

Everything you say on TV counts. You say it on record, with people watching you.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.