#public

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#almost #any #below #country #die

We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#bills #enact #express #his #hopeful

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#animal #brutal #circus #confinement #entertainment

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#between #difference #dream #eradicated #greatest

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#i #life #my life #never #republican

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#down #dragged #either #individual #lift

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#gets #good #i #more #negotiate

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#book #contract #first #forth #get

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#football #never #outfit #play #play football