Quotes About Public

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

If these men wished to influence ideas and public policies, why the secrecy? Isn't that what people do in a democracy? In a 1997 speech, Charles Koch provided an answer: "We are greatly outnumbered." Meaning, most Americans don't want what they want. Democracy can't work for them.

So what advice does your website offer?" "According to this, newly engaged couples touch all the time. They can't bear to be next to each other and not feel each other. Does that mean I have permission to stroke your breasts in public? Maybe this won't be so bad after all.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?" (pp.281-82)

The people had fallen silent at the striking of the clock, the coming of the chaplain; now I heard them all start up with hisses and with hoots— that, I knew, was for the hangman. I heard the very spreading of the sound about the crowd, like oil on water.

Being a UN Goodwill Ambassador was really cramping her style.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. As

Is there anything more embarrassing than being caught imitating someone you really admire, by someone who knows you really well? Apart from being caught taking a shit in public, maybe not.

The book of Revelation requires us to take a stand for the Lamb in this world. To read it well we must learn to think "theo-politically," or to say this another way, the entire book of Revelation is about public discipleship.

the podium is what you stand on. The lectern is what you stand behind.

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Laws that prohibit imports of foreign goods create monopolies at home and impoverish the public by condemning the country to restricted abundance, high prices, and, in Britain's case, "the rude produce [of] its own soil.

68. Until 1974, it was actually illegal to appear in public in Chicago if you were ugly.

Public hospitals should be for the poor - everyone else should have private health insurance.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.