I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
