Quotes About Public

La destrucción de la legitimidad de los gobiernos priistas está escrita en la cardiografía de sus crisis sexenales de finanzas públicas: 1976, 1982, 1987, 1994-1995. En el año 2000 el PRI perdió la presidencia.

El gobierno estableció una idea de lo público donde nada cuesta y nadie rinde cuentas, donde las finanzas del gobierno son un bien de todos que viene de ninguna parte, y nadie tiene que cuidarlo, y todos pueden meterle mano cuando les toca.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

No one in this world, so far as I know… has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

His was one of those well-groomed reputations that get the most out of everything; any unusual holiday acquires the character of an exploration, and though the explorer takes care to do nothing really original, the public does not know this

I'm standing in Wal- mart, I hear something inside my body. The noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. If I let the noise get out into the air, it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.

Funny the way those newspaper men veer about when they get wind of a new opening. Weathercocks. Hot and cold in the same breath. Wouldn't know which to believe. One story good till you hear the next. Go for one another baldheaded in the papers and then all blows over. Hail fellow well met the next moment.

Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

THE TIMING OF Lincoln's public letters turned out to be fortuitous

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-- unless, of course, I address myself as an other.

Of course, immortality of the soul-- the bare soul, cleansed of any personality traces-- is rarely what is desired in the yearning for immortality... More often what one intends to preserve is a public personage, a permanently veiled selfhood.

The truth has always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.

It was scary. More than Sara could possibly know. More than anybody ought to know, or ever would. History wasn't for the general public--it never had been. ... Just one shot A professional execution. Without passion. Almost without passion. ... He held Sara's hand for the last time. And Jill came tumbling after. he thought of the words in the children's rhyme. But Jack would not fall down. The day of ultimate madness had begun. Jack and Jill had finally begun.

the middle-aged anchorman said.

I'D BEEN A WITNESS dozens of times during my career, but this was the first time I'd had to defend myself. All my years of protecting the public, and now I had a bull's-eye on my back. I was raging inside, but I couldn't let it show

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.