Public Man Quotes

I want to see a public man come forward and say what the Irish question is ... Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world ... That is the Irish question in its integrity.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

The great corrupter of public man is the ego.

His military experiences have been confined to shooting a fleeing Spaniard in the back on the slopes of Kettle Hill in Cuba.... No other conspicuous American public man would behave with such squalid selfishness.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

A man ain't got not right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

A public man should have no resentments.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.