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Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
Eric Liu
Today
Government
Understanding
Past
Our
System
Public
Low
There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.
Eric Maskin
Good
Value
Air
Markets
Some
Some Things
Clean
Clean Air
Deliver
Like
Public
Public Good
Things
I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.
Eric Maskin
Statements
Detail
About
Studied
Make
Issues
Want
Public
Public Statements
The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.
Eric Maskin
Work
Market
Goods
Well
Very
Public
If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.
Eric Maskin
Buy
You
Car
Important
Other
Market
Pretty
Through
Heading
Goods
Well
Sort
Go
Provided
Very
Often
Which
Public
Use
Many
Works
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
Eric Metaxas
Culture
Secular
Increasingly
Our
Out
Chase
Altogether
Square
Want
Public
Many
Christians
In the stands, I've always heard the people yelling. When I'm in the community, when I get approached, I can honestly say I've not had anybody say stop kneeling in public. It's all been supportive.
Eric Reid
People
Community
Honestly
Say
Had
Kneeling
Supportive
Always
Been
Heard
Yelling
Get
Stop
Anybody
Public
Stands
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
Eric Ries
Smart
Odds
Increase
Our
Entrepreneurs
Fail
Economy
Most
Make
Policy
Were
Been
Loss
Biggest
Public
Might
Succeeding
Created
Help
Public Policy
Companies
Start-Up
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
Eric Rohmer
Success
Me
Faithful
State
Owe
Subsidies
Sustained
Which
Public
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
Eric Schlosser
Good
Business
Tries
Criticizes
Lead
Mislead
Industry
Practices
How
Very
Goes
Anybody
After
Public
Tobacco
Who
Good Company
Company
Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.
Eric Schneiderman
Government
Trust
People
Those
Must
Critics
Toughest
Abuse
Also
Role
Improving
Essential
Anyone
Public
Who
Public Trust
Lives
Believes
Play
In New York, we have laws against defrauding the public, defrauding consumers, defrauding shareholders.
Eric Schneiderman
Laws
Consumers
Shareholders
New
York
New York
Against
Public
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
Eric Schneiderman
Corruption
Made
Top
Out
Throughout
Priority
Public
Rooting
Career
I've never been able to control my public image.
Erica Jong
Control
Able
Never
Been
Public
Public Image
Image
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.
Erich Bergen
School
College
Three
Year
Carolina
Out
High
City
Hated
High School
Classroom
Dropped
New
Days
Mess
Because
Years
Off
North
North Carolina
York
Sitting
Quit
Senior
Senior Year
Arts
New York
New York City
After
Public
Then
Certainly
Public School
Two
Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.
Erik Paulsen
Government
Democracy
People
Fear
Our
We Cannot
Ourselves
Give
Allow
Accessible
Interacting
Cannot
Public
Should
Belief
Away
Shy
By The People
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Cause
Three
Motive
Conditions
Authority
Just
Public
Right
Necessary
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.
Ernest Istook
War
Property
Rights
People
Enjoy
Those
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Protesting
Provide
Iraq
Same
Want
Public
Should
Who
Express
Beliefs
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
Estelle Morris
Government
Needs
Job
Focus
Sector
Members
Responsible
Delivering
Make
Sure
Wants
Public
Skills
Use
Public Sector
Services
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
Esther Williams
Health
Healthy
Individual
Very
Expects
Different
Public
Different Things
Things
Two
When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
Ethan Canin
You
Medicine
Hospital
Writer
Part
Feel
Like
Doing
Public
Your
Resident
I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
Ethan Embry
Good
Day
School
Think
Everybody
One Day
Tries
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Good Thing
Outsider
Like
Get
Same
Being
Public
Public School
Thing
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Eugene Jarecki
Good
People
Example
Prison
Before
Profit
Striking
Complex
Stems
Putting
Perhaps
Most
Industrial
Misunderstanding
Least
Private
Public
Us
Public Good
Interests
Basic
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.
Eugene Jarecki
You
Money
Politicians
Say
Immediately
Corrections
Out
Run
Laws
More
Tougher
Put
Come
Well
Taller
Does
Fences
Where
Rhetoric
Happens
Public
Sentencing
Appeal
Thing
Needed
The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
Eugene Jarecki
Party
Tea
Group
Thinking
Analysis
Complex
Kind
Involved
Himself
Policy
Reagan
Very
Decision-Making
Ronald Reagan
Public
Tea Party
Public Policy
Deep
Rejects
The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.
Eula Biss
Education
Time
Health
Me
Quality
People
Money
Care
Assume
Habits
Like
Quality Health Care
Health Care
Access
Time And Money
Intended
Public
Us
Held
Public Health
Less
Less Time
Measures
Many
Belief
Widely
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