Top 1200 Public Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

Instead of going on a beach vacation to Hawaii, you could go to a Democratic convention, a state convention, a conference being held to discuss issues you care about, or even go hear a politician speak. Soon your life is all about government and politics and you delve into issues and public policy. When you do that, not only do you learn to be a good candidate for office, but you also learn to be a good elected official.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

Hillary Clinton's Russian re-set policy gave Moscow permission to go from privately challenging U.S. foreign policy to publicly moving military hardware into Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad and annexing Crimea from Ukraine. And Donald Trump seems to support the idea that Putin will be Putin. It's enough to leave America's allies confused.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

Despite being bailed out - in some cases repeatedly - by the public purse, the automakers have shown little public spirit.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not against negotiating with Putin, but I would say tougher and more skeptical. And Donald Trump has talked about revisiting policy towards Ukraine, revisiting policy about sanctions towards Russia, not as quick to criticize Putin for what he might be up to in Syria and propping up the regime there - so just seems to be more open to the possibilities of working out some kind of a - I guess you'd call a modus vivendi with Putin.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

We need to see more resources in the combination of public safety and public health but we have to use our dollars wisely.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Once you become public, then whatever you do is public.

I think the truth is most people don't want to hear about policy. They want to hear, 'I understand what you're going through, and you can trust me to fight for you and what you care about.' But we can do both - fight for policy and resonate with people at the same time.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.