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Top Quotes About Public
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Paul Wolfowitz
Action
Public
Voice
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
DeForest Soaries
Confidence
Democracy
Freedom
Public
Voting
We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn’t do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Jeremy Rifkin
Age
Debate
Now
Opportunity
Public
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Elliot Richardson
Effort
Legal
Needs
Policy
Practice
Public
Public policy
Question
Skill
Will
Work
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds
Fun
Programming
Public
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class – a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public’s masters. No wonder the public is upset.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Class
Public
Wonder
Workers
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
James Q. Wilson
American
Public
Want
Will
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
Samuel Wilson
Environmental
Health
Public
We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
Robert Menendez
Challenge
First
Health
Help
Hospitals
Money
Public
Reality
I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
Laisenia Qarase
Community
Interest
Open
Public
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words “gay marriage” are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
Dick Morris
Americans
Public
Words
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
Henry Green
Court
Fear
Public
School
University
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Foreign policy
Policy
Public
Sentiment
Terrorism
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
Al Spalding
Actor
Public
Right
Wrong
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
Joseph C. Lincoln
Public
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie
Fame
Perception
Play
Public
Time
Don’t try to be somebody you’re not because it doesn’t work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they’re involved in public office, it’s just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
Ben Quayle
Office
Public
Values
Work
The public has become my fairy godmother.
Eartha Kitt
Public
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett
American
Hope
Money
Public
Rest
Will
Years
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
John Moody
Company
Country
Government
Interest
Mountains
Public
Make sure you are the boss. I don’t think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
Mark Cuban
Boss
Public
Vision
Work
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey
American
Ocean
Opinion
Public
Public opinion
So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they’re going to come see you, and if they don’t, and if you’re kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won’t come see you.
Reba McEntire
Public
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.
Henry Hampton
People
Possibility
Public
Sense
Service
The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.
Herb Ritts
Awareness
Education
Europe
France
Public
states
United
Will
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
Suzi Quatro
Artists
Love
Public
Respect
Which is supposed to mean they’re doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
Robert McChesney
Profit
Public
Service
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern
Act
Confidence
Faith
Politics
Public
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
Robert Casey
Abortion
Beginning
Life
Public
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason
People
Public
Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.
Pete Waterman
Public
Want
I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff.
Adam Sandler
Being
Celebrity
Public
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
Expectation
Poetry
Public
What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I’ve wrestled with that very question myself.
Jim Wallis
Office
Public
Question
Running
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.
Charles W. Pickering
Family
Hope
Importance
Legislation
Programming
Public
If we get the donations, I think we’re going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.
Montel Williams
Money
Public
Will
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi
God
Public
Self
Support
Truth
World
The European public has always been great to me.
Kim Carnes
Public
I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.
Chingy
Age
Public
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
Joseph Pulitzer
Force
Life
Public
Publicity
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
George Mason
Business
Conviction
Justice
Policy
Power
Public
Plus the public’s attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn’t strike while the iron is hot… well it’s not like people will forget you, but they just won’t care anymore.
Brian Boitano
Attention
Care
Forget
Now
People
Public
Right
Will
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail – none of which is easy.
Princess Anne
People
Public
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin
Behavior
Harm
Public
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It’s a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you’re old friends.
Christopher Knight
Feeling
Friends
Old
Public
What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t.
Charley Pride
Country
Country music
Criticism
Music
Public
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Courage
Government
Intelligence
Popular
Press
Public
Right
Virtue
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
Decency
Morals
Public
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
Earth
Majority
Minority
Oppression
Public
Rights
Vote
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman’s right to choose, a good public education system.
Barbara Boxer
American
Democrats
Dream
Education
Environment
Fight
Privacy
Public
Rights
Woman
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