Quotes About Public

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.