#public

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#public-opinion #life

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#ideas #office #public #public office #run

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#am #happy #honest #i #i am

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run. ↗

— Andy Stern

#auto #had #i #i think #job

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82) ↗

— Sarah Turnbull

#city #lime #loo #public #toilet

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#combine #intellectual #more #other #private

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change. ↗

— Francine Busby

#change #democrat #done #i #independent

Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask! ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#organization #public-library #reference #men

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public good, they denounced parties as groups of ambitious men selfishly competing for power. Worse, parties were danger signals for a republic; if parties dominated a republic's politics, its days were numbered. ↗

— R.B. Bernstein

#parties #politics #republic #men