Quotes About Public

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.