Quotes About Public

Throughout the 1980s, the ideological climate shifted from one in which science was valued for its own sake or for the public interest to one in which science was valued for the profits it could generate in the private interest.

South Dakota's new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

historians rarely emphasize the tremendous importance that [Marie Antoinette's] public attached to what she was wearing at each step along the way.

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Perpetual celebrity—the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture—is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali.

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

too much dystopianism, too frequently or easily deployed, has its own costs. It's important to distinguish policies we don't like from policies that attempt a fundamental transformation of political institutions. That's true for purposes of conserving critical resources. But it's also true for purposes of drawing public attention and debate.

Power does not corrupt. Power reveals corruption. And absolute power reveals every single bit of corruption. So unless you want the dirty details of all your dreams made public, avoid absolute power.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I had been shocked by the findings of the polls, and several newspaper reports, that a large number of voters didn't know who I was.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process. And the market fundamentalists have managed to reduce providing those public goods.

Politicians will respect, rather than manipulate, reality only if the public cares about the truth and punishes politicians when it catches them in deliberate deception.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.