Quotes About Public

The country has had enough of the Clintons and the Bushes.

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Keep the operating entities—the ones that deal with the public—away from the asset-owning entities.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Every kind of falsehood and truth is present in public opinion, but it is the prerogative of the great man to discover the truth within it. He who expresses the will of his age, tells it what its will is, and accomplishes this will, is the great man of the age.

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

We must hold to the conviction that it is the nature of truth to prevail when its time has come, and that it appears only when this time has come, and therefore never appears prematurely, nor finds a public not ripe to receive it; also we must accept that the individual needs that this should be so in order to verify what is as yet a matter for himself alone, and to experience the conviction, which in the first place belongs only to a particular individual, as something universally held.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously better than the public men on the other side.

There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms

when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man—they only want a vote.

Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion?

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.

Our parents invested in the future, ours as well as theirs, through their taxes. They invested their tax money in the interstate highway system, the Internet, the scientific and medical establishments, our communications system, our airline system, the space program. They invested in the future, and we are reaping the tax benefits, the benefits from the taxes they paid. Today we have assets-highways, schools and colleges, the Internet, airlines-that come from the wise investments they made.

It is a common folk theory of progressives that 'the facts will set you free.' If only you can get all the facts out there in the public eye, then every rational person will reach the right conclusion. It is a vain hope. Human brains just don't work that way. Framing matters. Frames once entrenched are hard to dispel.

The government is commonly conceptualized as a business. If it is seen as a service industry, taxes can be seen as payment for services provided to the public. Those services can include protection (by the military, the criminal justice system, and regulatory agencies), adjudication of disputes (by the judiciary and other agencies), social insurance (as in Social Security and Medicare and various "safety nets"), and so on. Under

Any couple willing to fight for a public recognition of their love and a lifetime commitment has sanctity on their side.

The major thus-far-unframed effect is that runaway exponential accumulation of wealth share tends to kill off the provision of public resources that makes a satisfying and healthy private life possible.

The political effect of runaway wealth is, for example, to cut taxes on the wealthy, taking away funding for the public resources that made that wealth possible in the first place.

Runaway privatization of public resources. The private depends on the public, but conservatives are drastically cutting funds for public resources while successfully promoting privatization. They say that government doesn't work, and by cutting funds they can make government cease to work. And by cutting government resources for all, they can make democracy cease to work.