Quotes About Public

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.

President Donald Trump has now sued the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN over opinion pieces that they've published - and really, he should stop.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

I don't think for one second anyone believes the 'Washington Post' and 'New York Times' are anything but aggressively against Trump.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.

Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it's better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

For too long, the family-loving grassroots American public has sat back and watched ultra-liberal and militant radical groups cast fear into the hearts of our communications industries.

When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.