Quotes About Public

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.