Quotes with public-sector

Quotes 281 till 300 of 491.

  • Bethany McLean Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
    Hoover Off the Record (1934) door Theodore G. Joslin
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carolyn McCarthy Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Public instruction should be the first object of government.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Walter Bagehot Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William R. Alger Public opinion is a second conscience.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mark Twain Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Napoleon Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Oscar Wilde Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Bernstein Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Drayton Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Richard Dawkins Public sharing is an important part of science.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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