Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.
Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.
I had a very public battle with anorexia.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Public influence is the real government of the world.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.
I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
I am not a public speaker and never will be.
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
