Pastoral Resources

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.