In Public Quotes
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.
The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.
No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.
Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.
I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
