“Morals are private. Decency is public.”
Rita Mae Brown
“Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.”
Lino Spiteri
“One should not attempt to buy private loyalty with public money.”
“The role was carved out for government backbenchers purely for Nationalist Party reasons, not to satisfy any constitutional and public need, as in the case of Cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries, who head the Executive according to the democratic separation of powers.”
“What we see in Australia is that some government owned enterprises are simply more sophisticated at being inefficient than others.”
Maarten Anthony Wolfs
“I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.”
Jack Handy