Quotes About Public

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

How did orders, whether federal, state, or local, meant to protect public health ever come to be seen as a restriction of rights or liberty? It happens when freedom becomes license unbounded by concern for others.

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.

News Limited, which was the bridge on which this American dialect crossed into Australian public life. Decades

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

All public life sustains itself through metaphor.

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

The right idea, one that is in productive sync with one's talents, can unlock a whole worldview. If that idea is also part of a sensibility that is forming and spreading in the larger culture, or zeitgeist, a multiplier effect comes into play, and the art will resonate strongly with the viewing public. We will feel that it expresses us.

The complexities of national deficits, trade failures, budget gaps, negotiations to end the nuclear arms race, the crises of the Middle East, all these cannot be understood by giving the facts alone. The public needs appropriate historical background and clarification. People who are not taught much geography, history, economics, and physics simply cannot reach reasonable conclusions without help from specialists. This is not elitism, it is something far more important; it is called education.

Riverkeeper and other organizations have demonstrated, time and again, that some governmental officals, from the EPA and the state DEC to mayors, local councilmen and woman, routinely protect polluters and subvert the public interest.

Todo el mundo está a favor de reducir el Estado, salvo que encuentre la manera de vivir de él.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Now I am covered in knickers!" she complained loudly. "I can never show my face in polite society again!

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world. The government has the job of maintaining the day to day illusion of the one tribe nation. Each public disclosure of a public reality becomes something of a magnet that can attract others with a similar frame of reference. Thus, each public disclosure of a fragment of private reality serves as a dismantling tool against the illusion of a one tribe nation.