Top 1200 American Public Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open grounds of London. I doubt, in fact, whether any person fully comprehends their extent, from any of the ordinary descriptions of them, until he has seen them or tried to walk over them.

Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

We believe that we can win seats with integrity, with good public policy, with evidence-based public policy and that's what it's about for me.

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

Public servants should be focused on serving the public - not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation - not an exception.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me – all of me – I'm yours.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do it on public property. They have to do it on private property. There's nothing unconstitutional about that.

The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than there were during my father's time. But there is also reason for concern about new forms of racial oppression, such as measures to make it harder to vote, racial profiling and crushing public worker unions.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.