Quotes About Government

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Politicians know that as public opinion learns to assert itself more aggressively, a government that goes against a presidential opinion can find itself on the defensive.

American public policy is run on a myth.