Quotes about Public
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
— Dan Quayle
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
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.
— Thomas Paine
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
— Will Rogers
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
— Ronald Reagan
Be a politician; no training necessary.
— Will Rogers
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
— John Adams
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.
— John Lennon
I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
— William Hazlitt