Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department
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.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.
I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.
I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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.
Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?
While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.
The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.