Quotes About Public

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.