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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
— Jon Stewart
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public
— Edward Snowden
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
— John F. Kennedy
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades
— Marc Lamont Hill
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
— James Madison
If the government needs to tax something new, I suggest it be a tax on eye rolling and whispering in public
— Robert J. Braathe
The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.
— Nancy Pelosi
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.
— Mike Quigley
When there's a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there's public input, the people usually win.
— Morgan Carroll
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
— Arlen Specter
The task of government was not to stop selfish striving - a hopeless task - but to harness it for the public good.
— Ron Chernow
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
— John Stuart Mill
Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.
— Robert Quillen
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
— Luc De Clapiers
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
— Robertson Davies
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
— Gerald R. Ford
Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.
— Dennis Garvin
I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.
— Tommy Douglas
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
— Martha Gellhorn
The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
— Marion Nestle
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
— Grover Cleveland
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
— Michael Bloomberg
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
— Winston Churchill
The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.
— Joseph Addison
Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.
— Jonah Goldberg
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William Ewart Gladstone
For Madison, on the other hand, "a Public Debt is a Public curse," and "in a Representative Government greater than in any other."26
— Joseph J. Ellis
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
— Grover Cleveland
Public opinion in this country is everything.
— Abraham Lincoln
Excessive administration secrecy ... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
— John McCain
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.
— Laura Sydell
And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?
— Edward Bellamy
Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.
— Arianna Huffington
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[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
— David Lloyd George
Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services,
— Dave Eggers
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
— Woodrow Wilson
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
— George Washington
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
— W. Allen Wallis
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
— Stephen Hawking
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
— Jacob K. Javits
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
— James Madison
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
— Edward Snowden
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
— Charles Kennedy
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
— Andrew Jackson
People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
— Martin O'Malley
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.
— Dave Barry
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
— James Bovard
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
— George C. Marshall
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
— Eric Schneiderman
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
— Gustave De Molinari
We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.
— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
— Phil Zimmermann
Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
— Andrew Rosenthal
The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.
— Steven Magee
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.
— Steven Magee
Public influence is the real government of the world.
— Josiah Warren
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
— Elmer Davis
Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall
— J.D. Vance
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.
— Abraham Lincoln
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
— Thomas Jefferson
People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.
— Mitt Romney
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
— Margaret Thatcher
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
— George Bernard Shaw
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
— Barack Obama
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
— Mackenzie King
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.
— Robert Zoellick
