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Quotes About Public

I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.
~ Rick Santelli
The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public doesn't agree with them. They know that this is about animal cruelty, pure and simple.
~ Hilary Benn
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
~ Michael Ignatieff
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
~ David Harsanyi
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
~ David Ignatius
Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.
~ Dominic Cummings
People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't care about people like me.' That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. I know a lot of Tory MPs and I am sad to say the public is basically correct.
~ Dominic Cummings
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
~ Irvine Welsh
Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I think it's disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when someone says it in public, it's so terrifying they have to persecute that person.
~ Augustus Sol Invictus
The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
~ Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.
~ Timothy D. Snyder
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.
~ Martin Gore
I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public institution.
~ Sean Connery
Through censorship, our opinions and attitudes will become prescribed by the authorities, with dissenting views labeled as heretical and punishable by law. If this happens, we will surely see the dissolution of the rest of our rights accelerate, unhindered by public scrutiny and outrage.
~ Sean Patrick
All politicians are liars', he said, 'to quote Chancellor Janarus - Jet Nebula
~ Sean Williams
De hecho a la gente le encantaba opinar sobre la «cuestión judía» basándose en porcentajes.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Uno de estos presagios, malinterpretado en extremo e incluso fomentado y elogiado públicamente, fue la obsesión por el deporte que se adueñó de la juventud alemana en aquella época.
~ Sebastian Haffner
The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.
~ Senator John Kerry
Este o veche frica fata de mul?ime, mai ales când emana frica ?i ca atare reac?iile ii devin imprevizibile.
~ Serge Brussolo
There is another unique aspect to thrift conversions. Unlike many IPOs, in which insiders who bought at very low prices sell some of their shares at the time of the offering, in a thrift conversion insiders virtually always buy shares alongside the public and at the same price.
~ Seth A. Klarman
All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.
~ Seyla Benhabib
We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
~ Shane Warne
Pornography, then, educates the male public. It would be very surprising if it did not.
~ Sheila Jeffreys