Quotes About Public

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

The public intuitively understood that Social Security, as FDR's grandson James Roosevelt, Jr., wrote, "could not be better managed. It returns more than 99 cents to beneficiaries on every dollar collected … I dare you to find a private retirement plan that can claim that." In a matter of only a few weeks, President Bush's privatization scheme was dead.

the public has always loved Social Security; they do not want it to change; they like it the way it is. In fact, the only real criticism from the public is that the cost of living adjustment (the COLA) is inadequate in keeping up with rising costs.

Women who appear perfectly happy sometimes live in fear of their lives. And men who give every impression in public of kindness and amiability can be monsters in private.