Quotes About Public

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

I'm often asked by search committees for public and private universities to help them think about how to find their next president.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.

I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting, and damaging public and private property.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.