Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
