My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
