Quotes About Public

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

His [Donald Trump] name is on everything. He is a celebrity. But he is not a governor. He has never run government. He is a business executive.