Quotes About Public

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Tenk så mange fornuftige reformer som har mislykkes fordi de bar stemplet til en forhatt myndighet! Og omvendt, så mange uforstandige handlinger som er blitt bejublet fordi de ble approbert av en med legitimitet fra kampmarken! Dette er en sannhet som er gyldig overalt, når et forslag blir lagt ut til avstemning, uttaler velgerne seg i mindre grad om selve saken enn om hvilken tiltro de har til han eller de som har lagt den fram.

People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

you ask a member of the voting public a question on any subject most of us can only come up with three words we identify with that thing. The words depend on what our concerns are or what the papers tell us our concerns are

Only when the media shines a spotlight can people know and decide whether to act.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

who brought their knitting in public, just to keep him from the feeling that the clock was ticking at odd hours of the day with nothing to fill the time.

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

It is important to avoid casting the professional in the role for which he is known. The public should not be burdened with any preconceptions.

The rancor against Europe in American mass public opinion is of a completely different magnitude from anti-Americanism in Europe. In American politics and society, Europe is—if anything—a sporadic and insignificant element of the public discourse.

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

For his entire adulthood and throughout his public ministry in Texas, John R. Rice had avoided talking about the subject of race. He had never, by any published report or in the memory of any of his friends or family members or in any sermon in The Sword of the Lord, attacked or defended the institution of slavery or the subjugation of black people by white people.

The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere.

On 25 May 2011, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, speaking to the parliament of the United Kingdom, singled out Newton, Darwin and Alan Turing as British contributors to science. Celebrity is an imperfect measure of significance, and politicians do not confer scientific status, but Obama's choice signalled that public recognition of Alan Turing had attained a level very much higher than in 1983, when this book first appeared.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Interacting with Karan Johar was huge and my first Weekend Ka Vaar really went bad.