Quotes About Public

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Government is not show business.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.