Quotes About Public

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.