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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.
In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.