Public Quotes

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

But what I want to assure and reassure the public is we are concerned about your safety, your security, and your privacy. Let's work together in partnership to ensure that we can have the best way forward.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

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

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.