#public

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#homeschooling #ignorance #public-education #education

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#could #election #figures #gay #gay movement

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#answer #any #ask #beltway #both

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be. ↗

— Gallagher

#draw #friends #kids #line #parents

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#being #best #correspondent #different #ended

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#censure #eminent #man #pays #public

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#been #big #companies #founding #gone

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#bad #bad government #government #last #likely

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do? ↗

— Vivien Kellems

#anything #course #hound #how #i

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat