Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.
The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
