Quotes About Public

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Politics has become entertainment.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

How can a president not be an actor?

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.