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Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
Bill Kristol
Power
Guard
Spheres
Corrupt
Corruptions
Both
Tends
Private
Erect
Against
Public
Should
I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
Time
Long
Long Time
Markets
One Thing
Tried
Small
Invest
Investing
Long Time Ago
Investor
Learned
Trying
Public
Next
Gambling
Used
Molecules
Element
Thing
Apply
Here
Treatment
During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.
Bill Maris
Before
Rushed
Bubble
Had
Revenue
Go
Any
Public
Companies
Many
The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.
Bill Nelson
Safety
Control
Air
Flying
Airlines
Risk
Entity
Both
Take
Over
Partly
Governed
Private
Sale
Traffic
Handing
Afford
Public
Should
Liability
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
Bill Pullman
Reality
Television
Wear
Lifestyle
Instinct
Like
Anonymity
Always
Loved
Public
Reality Television
Really
Your
Things
With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.
Bill Schuette
Safety
Will
Our
Unless
Top
Top Ten
Cities
Ten
Never
Most
Protecting
Governments
Task
America
Michigan
Public
Fulfill
Public Safety
Fully
Basic
Four
Flourish
Violent
He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.
Bill Scott
Best
Business
Master
Other
State
Relations
Chaos
Television
Some
Only
He
Very
Getting
Public
Confrontation
Taxpayers
Paid
Apparatus
Public Relations
Exposure
Media
Extensive
Basis
Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.
Bill de Blasio
Education
Health
Good
Achieve
Good Job
Job
Control
Think
Way
Right Way
Some
Some Things
He
Environment
Clearly
Very
Did
Mayor
Public
Then
Public Health
Right
Things
Applied
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
Bill de Blasio
Future
Good
Think
Everyone
Secure
Economic
Economic Future
Policy
Families
Public
Public Policy
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Bill de Blasio
Service
School
College
Else
Back
High
Would
Would-Be
High School
High School And College
Could
Involved
Going
Literally
Anything
Anything Else
Public
Public Service
Believed
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
Billie Burke
Work
Emotions
Gift
Tears
Satisfied
Tribute
Married
Simply
Merriment
Joyous
She
Because
Audience
Always
Cannot
Loves
Public
Moving
Aside
Who
Whole
Actress
Her
Compelling
Career
Set
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
Billy Collins
Pretty
Poetry
Boxes
Places
Public
Buses
Cereal
Much
Billboards
I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
Billy Tauzin
Trust
Lost
Rebuild
Think
Finally
Industry
Got
American
Gets
Public
American Public
Connection
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
Birch Bayh
Yourself
People
Burden
Become
National
Young
Think
Like
Make
Make A Difference
Sure
Because
Office
Getting
Expensive
Difference
Want
Public
Young People
Elected
Public Office
Who
Large
Level
Number
Numbers
In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
Bjarke Ingels
Commitment
Car
Pedestrian
City
Long-Term
Equal
Priority
Movement
Where
Forms
Public
Creating
Transportation
Copenhagen
When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
Blake Mycoskie
You
Disagree
Organization
Giving
Single
Believe
Every
Our
Way
Purpose
Share
Invitation
Naive
Sincere
Mission
Accept
Endorse
May
Story
Public
Means
Aspect
Engagement
Speaking
Public Speaking
Belief
Toms
If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.
Blake Shelton
You
People
Eye
Take
Going
Public
Public Eye
Shots
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
Blase J. Cupich
Life
Political
Our
System
Distorted
Segregated
Generations
Goal
Foremost
Political Life
Discriminatory
Officials
Essence
Influence
Form
Public
Social
Public Officials
Social System
Whose
Slavery
Preserve
I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
Me
People
Thought
Somebody
Hair
Tooth
Hid
Scar
Facial
True
Like
Got
Were
Lip
Moustache
Just
Decided
Public
Who
Bust
Keep
British
Appreciated
It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
People
Hair
Facial
True
Were
Moustache
Just
Decided
Public
Keep
British
Appreciated
There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
Bob Barr
World
Matters
Hundreds
Fine
Insight
Objective
Journalists
Policy
Around
Provide
Intelligent
Happening
Inform
Public
Us
Regularly
Public Policy
Who
As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.
Bob Beauprez
Hope
Health
Remember
Safety
Debate
Country
Energy
Nothing
State
Unnecessary
Lawmakers
Colorado
Federal
Economy
Policies
Stifle
Doing
Role
While
Public
Regulations
Public Safety
Growth
Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.
Bob Beckel
Own
Unions
Lobbyists
Unless
Corporations
Wealthy
Only
Like
Institutions
Campaigns
Labor
Officials
Place
Public
Turn
Public Officials
Fund
Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.
Bob Beckel
Education
Alone
Good
Family
Blame
School
Impossible
Made
Poverty
Country
Cities
Schools
Parts
Decaying
Tax
Breakdown
Public
Public School
Many
Bases
Nearly
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.
Bob Corker
Parents
Thinking
Embarrassed
Running
About
Office
Public
Public Office
I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.
Bob Etheridge
Work
Will
Promote
Civil
Always
Discourse
Public
Public Discourse
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