Quotes About Public

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn't look very good.