In Public Quotes
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.
Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
