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Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
I sometimes can't be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Bitcoin was created with security in mind. The Blockchain is Bitcoin's public ledger that records every transaction in the Bitcoin economy.
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
White House staff spends enormous amounts of time planning a president's every move so that his public persona reflects the mood of the public.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.
I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.