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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Barney Frank

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

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

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

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

Timothy Thomas Fortune

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Harrison Ford

Life

Public

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

William Cameron Forbes

Death

Success

Public

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

Steve Forbes

Man

Public

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.