#public

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out. ↗

— Barney Frank

#carried #formulated #going #granted #heavily

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#cover #debt #entity #expensive #higher

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause. ↗

— Al Franken

#agenda #also #bias #brand #cause

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes. ↗

— Marilyn French

#eyes #laws #life #may #men

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#democrats #guy #mirror #republicans #same

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#education #executions #first #funding #mississippi

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#group #i #kids #public #public school

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#being #certain #eye #freedom #given

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. ↗

— David Frum

#collapse #educated #frightened #i #i am

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to. ↗

— David Frum

#also #anything #been #driven #extreme