Quotes About Public

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.