Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public...
He who serves the public has a sorry master.
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.
If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
I have had a career in public service.
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
