Quotes About Public

What is horrible about politicians and cops is that they look as though they were made for the job.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

We're a bit like criminal lawyers. We're the public face of things, but it's the civil lawyers who do the serious work, in the shadows.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.