Top 1200 Public Affairs Quotes & Sayings

The public has no interest in whether the President acts boldly or timidly in his personal affairs.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."

Edelman diversified into public affairs in the late '60s with important programs for the Concorde SST, gaining landing rights at JFK Airport in New York, and in the late '70s generating public approval for the building of the very stark Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C., from a design by the very young architect Maya Lin.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.

But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

I don't believe it helps when internal affairs are made public.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame