#public

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

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We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#collusion #corruption #crime #feeding #funds

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ↗

— George Mason

#except #few #i #militia #officials

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ↗

— George Mason

#appeared #business #common #conviction #disgusted

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. ↗

— John McCain

#abraham lincoln #am #believe #discipline #fiscal

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. ↗

— John McAfee

#any #common #could #directory #domain

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

#housing #just #live #more #opportunities

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#allow #between #corrupt #democrats #difference

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#moved #only #public #really