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I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.


James L. Buckley


#controversy #current #debates #educate #financing

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.


Martin Van Buren


#country #fortunes #god #hands #his

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.


Martin Van Buren


#adapted #already #been #best #conviction

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

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.


Allen Ginsberg


#public-opinion #influence

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.


Lewis Black


#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest


Winston Churchill


#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.


Charles-Edward A. Winslow


#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?


Janet Poppendieck


#general-welfare #government-programs #moral-responsibility #public-service #food

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?


H.M. Forester


#public-service #selfishness #money