Public Quotes

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

It is important that we continue to build our capacity to respond to public emergencies, which could include natural disasters, a viral pandemic or a major disruption to our province's energy supply or communications infrastructure.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

We, traditionally, in the juvenile-justice system have been charged with keeping the public safe. There's a lot more to it than that. This department is about the business of rehabilitation, and that's what we're going to do.

Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs that have saved countless millions of lives. But antibiotic resistance is a critical public health issue that is eroding the effectiveness of antibiotics and may affect the health of each and every one of us.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Epidemic obesity is arguably the gravest public health crisis we face and inarguably the least controlled.

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

The only thing more despicable then an elected official who steals from the public is when the people who he stole from celebrate his return from incarceration. It almost condones the action.

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

It will forever be open space and forever be open to the public.

I will not support this application because I feel that it brings up a public safety issue. The pharmacy is located in an extremely congested parking lot and adding a drive thru will not make it any more pedestrian friendly.

The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.

The FAO is concerned that donors have neglected the support of public veterinary services.

Walt Disney built an empire by taking public domain works like Cinderella and dressing them up with his imagination.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.

In spite of this tragedy, reducing lead poisoning remains one of the most successful public-health interventions of the past 50 years.