Public Officials Quotes

Public Officials Quote of the day

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

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

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.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

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

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.