Quotes About Public

Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside of the world's wrath will strike. It will strike hard. I know it, and you will know it.

This is the way in which we transact the public business of the Nation," a New York newspaper had recently complained. "No man has the slightest chance of securing the smallest place because of his fitness for it.… If your streets are so unclean to-day as to threaten a pestilence, it is because those in charge were appointed through political influence, with no regard to their capacity to work.

Long before it was over, the war would also change the empire in another, equally indelible way: It would bring to the attention of a rapt British public a young man named Winston Churchill.

The whole business of medical journals is corrupt because owners are making money from restricting access to important research, most of it funded by public money.

Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.

voluntary work, grew fatter and spent more time at home. The house and the immediate family became central, to the detriment of public life.

He immediately began to de-privatize. He revoked the licences to the unpopular Imperial Continental Gas Association and fashioned it into a company owned by the municipality. The same happened with the water pipeline over the dunes and the Amsterdamse Omnibus Maatschappij (Amsterdam Omnibus Company), which had run a number of horse-drawn trams in the city since 1875. In doing all this, Treub instigated an evolutionary process that was to give a lasting social basis to city policy. From

My public persona led to the company reaching out. That's the relationship that you have to build. - Arun Gupta

Your woman wears underwear out in public," Sabin said. "Must be nice. How'd you manage that little miracle?" "Only the Deity knows.

Americans expect the president to right the wrongs that plague us—and we blame him when he fails. Because we invest impossible expectations in the presidency, the presidency has become an impossible job. And once the honeymoon period inevitably fades, the modern president becomes a lightning rod for discontent, often catching blame for phenomena beyond the control of any one person, however powerful

It was so full of light. The huge public square had what must be the Basilica at one end, topped with bulbous domes and covered with marble and mosaics. It was imposing and glorious and, yes, utterly beautiful.

Disasters, my dear Winters, are like public omnibuses," Vale said sententiously. "They come in multiples rather than singly, are inevitably overloaded when they arrive, and stay far too long in any one spot.

Kai! There's been a palace revolution and the peasants are attacking!" Kai gave a deep shuddering sigh and finally opened his eyes properly. "Execute them all in the public square," he mumbled, clearly still half-asleep.

One study of twenty years of data in the United States concluded that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."4

I mean, public humiliation was the worst possible punishment I could think of for ME. And also for anybody with a brain.

But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.

Give the people what they think they want.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

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

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom on the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Limits to the wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none." Note well: the community's right is "absolute.

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.