Quotes About Community

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I'm intrigued by being in public office.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

If you don't know anybody who is out of work, who needs housing, if you've never taken a call at 2 o'clock in the morning from a neighbor who is running out of heating fuel in the middle of February, then you don't know what you do in a tough situation. To me, that's the measure of whether you should be in public office.

As public officials, we have a duty to protect all of our communities and our number one priority must be saving lives.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.

We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

Restoring the right to vote to individuals who have served their term in prison is also a common-sense public safety measure.

Public safety is a public health issue.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.