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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
Bernie Sanders
Education
Service
Government
Public Education
Every
Virtually
Security
Wealthy
Postal
Postal Service
Powerful
Performs
Very
Privatize
Want
Whether
Public
Social
Interests
Special
Who
Special Interests
Social Security
Function
Now
Medicare
Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.
Bernie Sanders
Health
Care
All Americans
See
Exchange
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Health Care
Clinton
Option
American
Wants
Public
Choose
Right
I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
Bert Lance
Service
Best
Business
Better
Country
Sense
Ran
Kind
High
Tried
Some
Highway
Course
Always
Goal
Georgia
Than
Department
Anybody
Banking
Want
Wanted
Public
Public Service
Set
A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
Bess Truman
Woman
Husband
Sit
Beside
Hat
Silent
Sure
Place
Public
Straight
Her
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
Bethany McLean
History
Long
Consider
Airport
Highways
Goods
Like
Most
Privatization
Public
Us
Assets
All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.
Betsy DeVos
Schools
Yes
Accountable
Public
Should
Receive
Funding
I expect there will be more public charter schools.
Betsy DeVos
Will
More
Charter
Charter Schools
Schools
Expect
Public
If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
Betsy DeVos
Great
Strong
Will
Public Schools
Schools
Advocate
Confirmed
Public
My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
Betty Parsons
Art
Me
Enemies
No Friends
Reputation
Some
Threw
Scene
Had
Hostility
Built
Were
Began
Friends
Very
Taste
Artillery
Heavy
Against
Public
Convinced
To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.
Betty Who
People
Somewhere
Everyone
Say
Restaurant
Totally
Paris
Proposed
Excited
Like
Cliche
Got
Get
Just
Where
Want
Happen
Public
Avoid
Secluded
Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.
Big Boi
Benefits
Big
Just
Banking
Anything
Public
The danger is that the artists who'll put grime into the commercial and public eye will put grime at the back of their closets and jump on another genre of music.
Big Narstie
Music
Will
Back
Danger
Eye
Put
Genre
Another
Jump
Commercial
Closets
Artists
Public
Public Eye
When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.
Bikram Choudhury
Me
Thought
Stupid
Idiot
President
Once
Laughed
He
Him
Reagan
Arrested
Question
Going
Ronald Reagan
Public
Asked
Appreciated
President Trump has said he will not sign a bill which does not protect those with pre-existing conditions. I'm a physician who worked in a public hospital for 25 years caring for those with pre-existing conditions.
Bill Cassidy
Will
Physician
President
Caring
President Trump
Those
Sign
Hospital
He
Protect
Does
Said
Years
Trump
Conditions
Which
Public
Worked
Bill
Who
I'm a horrible public speaker.
Bill Condon
Horrible
Public
Speaker
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
Bill Dedman
Good
Dangerous
Word
Will
Building
Action
State
Local
Local Governments
No Guarantee
About
Prevent
Area
Take
Hazards
Discourage
Governments
Get
Public
Landslide
Even
Maps
Guarantee
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.
Bill Dedman
Other
States
Economic
Like
Most
Disclosure
Legislators
Public
Little
Interests
Regulation
Illinois
Keep
Honest
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
Bill Dedman
Strong
Cause
Year
Enough
Typical
Earthquake
Could
Which
Public
Required
Radiation
Expose
Each
Each Year
Nuclear
Chance
Damage
Core
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
Bill Dedman
Government
Business
State
Rule
Correspondence
About
Records
Between
Courts
Private
Government Officials
Accounts
Officials
Whether
Public
Use
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.
Bill Dedman
Father
Back
Hospital
Town
Juan
Without
His
Up
Dominican Republic
Died
Dusty
Grew
San
Republic
Public
Converted
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
Bill Delahunt
Education
Safety
Political
Face
Increases
Other
Drastic
Unpopular
Both
Between
Parties
Governors
Political Parties
Essential
Tax
Tax Increases
Public
Cuts
Choice
Public Safety
Medicaid
Stark
Services
I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.
Bill Flores
Differences
Air
Opinion
Any
Public
Need
I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.
Bill Gurley
Facebook
Long
Cute
Think
Too
One Thing
Both
Particularly
Got
Go
Waited
Front
May
Happened
Public
Thing
Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits.
Bill Haslam
Faith
Religion
Constitution
Women
Commitment
Obligation
Debate
Men
Men And Women
Every
Our
Motivated
However
Very
Different
Establishment
Against
Public
Warned
Belief
Founders
Right
Bring
Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.
Bill Haslam
You
Business
Own
Every
Think
State
Say
Run
Almost
Office
Any
Going
Want
Public
Public Office
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.
Bill Keller
Hope
Will
Think
Name
Access
Been
Dollars
Done
Being
Tax
Tax Dollars
Being Done
Public
Decline
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