Best Our Public Quotations
105 Our Public quotes by 91 unique authors
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The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national…
— Mark Shields
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
— Bainbridge Colby
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Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious,…
— Sheryl Crow
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy…
— Yoko Ono
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Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of…
— Cornel West
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Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And…
— Cornel West
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
— George W. Romney
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The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of…
— Martin Filler
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I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege…
— Helen Thomas
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The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions…
— Ken Ham
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All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts,…
— Bill Cosby
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From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to…
— Julia Glass
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It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious…
— Tristram Stuart
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Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our…
— Jan C. Ting
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And…
— King Felipe VI
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I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
— Louise Slaughter
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Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set…
— John Hutton
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I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
— Jay Weatherill
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It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public…
— Bill Clinton
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Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
— Thomas Nashe
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