Quotes About Government

The Science Council of Japan is a government organization and operates with a roughly Yen1 billion budget annually. And appointed members become public servants.

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

I have had a career in public service.

I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

I was always more interested in public service. What I discovered is you could practice law and be a public servant.

I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.

Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first state, so whether it does very well on the economic front or not, is not central to public support for it.

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my camera, my pen, my pad, and my network to do my part, to make sure that Americans will no longer fear their government. Or its employees. They work for us - not the other way around.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

A President of the United States cannot restrain anything from publication.

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.

Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we'll give it.

When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it's very difficult for government agencies including the DOD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal.