Quotes of: Public-discourse Keyword

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they neve...

Noah Feldman

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated ...

Douglas Wilder

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

John Strachan

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention...

Andrew Weil

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich ...

William Blake

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A...

Al Franken

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Robert Graham

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

Paul McGann

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Stuart Dybek

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.

Ted Cruz

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Juan Williams

I went to public school up until junior high.

Kristen Stewart

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

Lewis Black

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

Molly Ringwald

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Chris Whittle

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.

Charles Duhigg

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

Michael Moore

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

Nancy Pearcey