#public

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#citizens #confidence #enforcement #erode #good

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ↗

— John Betjeman

#benefactors #front #gardens #houses #interesting

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american republic #bribe #congress #day #discovers

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. ↗

— Mary Bono

#asking #attempts #authority #cease #clear

The course of business shapes public opinion. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#course #opinion #public #public opinion #shapes

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#booth #colleagues #democrat #equal #every

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#bad #because #business #came #decision

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#both #bring #deficits #home #iraq