Top 1200 Public Discourse Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

We need to see more resources in the combination of public safety and public health but we have to use our dollars wisely.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

Once you become public, then whatever you do is public.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

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 embarrassment.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.