#public

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

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#public-opinion #censorship

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

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

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explain #gossip #life #people #public-opinion

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for. ↗

— Charles Evers

#i #i believe #i believe in #most #republicans

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves. ↗

— Allen West

#assumes #best #better #care #each

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#censorship #confused #ever #first #fought

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#citizen #gap #measure #person #public