Quotes about Public
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
- Ronald Reagan
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- James Madison
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
- Bill Gates
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
- Ben Carson
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- George Washington
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
- Ashley Montagu
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
- William McKinley
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
- Teresa of Avila
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
- George Eliot
I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.
- Jerry Falwell
I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.
- George W. Bush