Quotes About Public

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

We never really grow up, we just learn how to act in public.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Clinton grew up working-class, and had spent a lifetime in public service and government generally accepting the frameworks of those systems. Trump, the son of a wealthy man, showed no interest in them. And he had no compunction about being seen as using the government as if it were an extension of himself.

core tenet of the Trump political movement has been finding publicly acceptable targets to serve as receptacles for preexisting anger.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

People who are very aggressive to advocate the benefits of Covid vaccine through media should be the first to be given this medicine in public and that too by randomly picking up its bottle from the store without their knowledge.

things changed when the debate broadened out to include the general public at large, and not just the political classes.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

Han kysste henne, snabbt och diskret med tanke på alla studenter som strömmade.

On the Continent, bishops did not spurn such creature comforts, and regarded splendour as an essential prerequisite of their public role.

A system based on corrupting public figures does not take kindly to public figures who refuse to be corrupted

The obligations of citizens is to make it clear that Aboriginal issues are central to our public concerns, that we want them dealt with in a fully democratic context of openness and justice, that we will vote accordingly.

This reality of the Honour of the Crown is an important Aboriginal contribution to justice for all Canadians. In fact, I believe that non-Aboriginals could use it in many government-related cases. Chief Delbert Guerin, who led this long and difficult fight, died in May 2014. He was one of the great figures of contemporary Canada. By formally reintroducing ethics into the core of public administration, he changed the way we must think of ourselves. We owe him a great deal.

a reigning logic of efficiency insists that money spent on the public good is somehow a form of indulgence. There

When parties and elections are financed not by public funds but by private contributions, the political forum is so constrained by the wishes of the dominant interests that the basic measures needed to establish just constitutional rule are seldom properly presented.

But as cops began to develop FBI-like attitudes, and to build FBI-like fortresses, as they sealed themselves away in patrol cars, as they fended off contact with the public, they began to resemble a paramilitary force, rather than peace officers.

anti-Trump demonstrations

The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.

Then we caught the presidential debates. The people you folks elect are sort of scary.

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I'm recognized in public about 80 percent of the time across this country, but during the other 20 percent when I'm not, I get pissed when I realize how shabbily other people must be treated every day. When store clerks or airline reps do suddenly recognize me and get nice after being grumpy when they didn't know who I was, I get testy right back.

As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.