#public

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#college #college student #i #i came #into

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#boss #democratic #democratic party #leader #party

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#later #natural #natural world #our #own

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

— Phyllis Diller

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Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. ↗

— John Gates

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Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#collective #conscious #fear #hate #here

The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

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