In Public Quotes

In Public Quote of the day

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

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

Lucifer is God in the public school system

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Public service is my motto.

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.