America Quote by Edward R. Murrow

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our…

— Edward Snowden

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

— John Negroponte

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

— George Allen

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

— Charlie Chaplin

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs.

— John Dingell

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who…

— Simon Newcomb

The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables…

— John F. Kennedy

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

— George C. Williams