Pastoral Resources

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

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

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

The course of business shapes public opinion.