Quotes About Public

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job?

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, I am not a crook. Jimmy Carter says, I have lusted after women in my heart. President Reagan says, I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.

Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will—a

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

rather than increasing, corruption decreased. This was not achieved spontaneously, however; instead, a series of measures that were effective in tackling this vice were adopted. Transparency was introduced in law. All documents pertaining to the plan, including the selection of people who benefited from programs, accounts, and invoices were considered to be public documents, open and accessible to any citizen.

The manipulated millions could be aroused or soothed by any lies. The guiding light of journalism was no stronger than a glow-worm.

Tlacey bought us passage on a public shuttle," Rami told me. "That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

lure humans in with promises of room privacy so it could record them in the public spaces.

Spurred on by those in public life, the ordinary bigots seemed to find a voice.

Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned land. Thus, any tax that pays for public services without obtaining revenue from resulting land value increases is fundamentally unjust.

In her final months [Princess] Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... [One paper] had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.

Neither the Church of Christ, nor a Christian Commonwealth, ought to tolerate such as prefer private gain to the public weal, or seek it to the hurt of their neighbors.