Quotes About Public

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

We've reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say 'he or she died'? We're far more likely to say 'she passed away,' as though death were a sterile process of modest preparation, followed by shrink-wrapping, then rapid transit—where? Well, elsewhere. In short, it's the single thing we're loath to discuss in public.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

When the destinies of the world are at stake, there comes a point at which private esteem and admiration must give way to the sense of public duty.