Quotes About Public

Two years of required public service would give young people an opportunity to learn civic responsibility by serving the common good directly. It should be a duty of citizenship. This is how we once regarded military service.

After examining 1,799 policy issues in detail, two eminent researchers, Princeton professor Martin Gilens and Professor Benjamin Page of Northwestern University, concluded that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.

Public shaming can also carry a painful stigma. "Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death," wrote Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who also sought to put an end to public stocks and whipping posts.

Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

it will be when prestige (both public and private) is low that we will be intent upon using the successes of associated others to help restore image.

Not all commitments affect self-image, however. There are certain conditions that should be present for a commitment to be effective in this way: they should be active, public, effortful, and freely chosen.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made," President Harry Truman observed. It was "what they called public power…

the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

At the same time, most of what government does that helps them is now so deeply woven into the thread of daily life that it's no longer recognizable as government.

The question will arise, and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, 'Which shall rule—wealth or man; which shall lead—money or intellect; who shall fill public stations—educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?'

Capitalism's role is to enlarge the economic pie. How the slices are divided and whether they are applied to private goods like personal computers or public goods like clean air is up to society to decide. This is the role we assign to democracy.

What's truly immoral is not what adults choose to do with other consenting adults but what those with great power have chosen to do to the rest of us. America's problems have nothing to do with private morality. The breakdown is in public morality—abuses of public trust that undermine the integrity of our economy and democracy

Republicans want us to believe that the central issue is the size of government, but the real issue is whom government is for. Public

America is one of the few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers.

Republicans want us to believe that the central issue is the size of government, but the real issue is whom government is for.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

The LSP makes clear that in OOD the ISA relationship pertains to behavior . Not intrinsic private behavior, but extrinsic public behavior; behavior that clients depend upon.

Moscow sought to camouflage its Georgian operation from the international public—and the Soviet public as well—by presenting it as an intervention in an Armenian-Georgian conflict during which internal revolutionary changes happened to occur.