Elizabeth I Quotes

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

The vices of kings cannot remain hidden, for the splendor of their lofty station permits naught to be concealed.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

Everyone makes mistakes, and they never go unnoticed when you're in the public eye.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

People know what I'm doing.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

Public men are bees working in a glass hive.

It does take courage to be in public life.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

If we're not careful, to be in public life, you're going to have to be the product of a virgin birth.

A politician can never escape his past; he can transcend his past.

Each of us in our time in high office had our ample share of severe critics. But only we actually knew, far better than our worst critics ever dreamed, how truly fallible and all-too-human each of us really was.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

I have been in public office and have been criticized. I do not object to it. A public official should be willing to be criticized. An agent of the people of this country should be called to account.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

I'm a public figure. It's up to me to take the initiative to explain things. It's my responsibility.

Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.