Quotes of: Public-support Keyword

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison

I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say that it's not in the best interest for someone in my tax bracket, but it's not about that. It's about him making the world better and making it equal an...

Dwyane Wade

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

George Soros

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism, in particular the freedom to b...

George Friedman

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

Benazir Bhutto

It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

Mackenzie Astin

When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Barbara Jordan

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Bruce Jackson

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

Estelle Morris

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Robert Peel

A single beam cannot support a great house.

Chinese

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Charlie Dent

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so...

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret dip...

Slavoj Zizek

It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, a...

Elliott Abrams

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

David Cameron

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we alre...

Jamie Dimon