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Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
Leadership
Change
Risks
World
Goals
Change The World
Virtues
Alike
Those
Out
Objectives
More
Tend
Take
Leaders
Mere
Managers
Experts
Public
Modest
Who
Bold
Downplay
Whose
Set
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Government
Courage
Intelligence
Virtue
Press
Able
Sham
Know
Without
Mockery
Trained
Which
Public
Disinterested
Popular
Right
Preserve
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
Joseph Rykwert
You
Enormous
Haven
Entrance
Look
Welcoming
Halls
Were
Off
Very
Spaces
Public
Display
Skyscrapers
Marble
Street
Amount
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
Joseph Stiglitz
Good
Me
Made
Resource
Market
Unlikely
Respects
Recognized
Would
Insight
Clear
Like
Private
Provide
Efficient
Whenever
Information
Public
Public Good
Many
Many Respects
The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.
Joseph Stiglitz
People
Financial
Sector
Drawn
Distorted
Physicists
Salaries
Led
Committed
Getting
Public
Public Sector
People think I'm kind and considerate and that I listen and evaluate and give each party a chance to talk. The public's perception of judges seems to be improving because of what I'm doing, and that makes me happy.
Joseph Wapner
Me
Happy
People
Perception
Party
Think
Considerate
Kind
Give
Seems
Talk
Because
Judges
Makes
Doing
Improving
Listen
Public
Evaluate
Each
Chance
I'm not a typical public school boy.
Josh Bowman
School
Typical
Boy
Public
Public School
Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
Josh Fox
Health
Safety
Political
Single
Every
Lobbying
Spent
System
Laws
Contamination
Toxic
Protect
Dollar
Behalf
American
Political System
Legislator
Oil
Public
Public Health
Gas
When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.
Josh Groban
You
Yourself
Half
One Half
Kind
See
About
Vocal
Only
Develops
Around
Brain
Brand
Public
Realize
Your
Present
Consciousness
Start
Chance
Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.
Josh Hawley
Confidence
Political
Ethics
System
Vital
Restoring
Missouri
Reform
Political System
Public
Meaningful
It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.
Josh Hawley
Confidence
Country
Secret
Our
Crisis
Institutions
Public
Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity's unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places.
Josh Hawley
Life
Prayer
Public Schools
Christian
Christianity
Back
Pressed
Recognizing
Moral
Would
Laws
Through
Allow
Like
Schools
Majority
Forces
Sought
American
Place
Places
Public
American Life
Turn
Coalition
Evangelicals
Unique
Groups
Including
Fighting public corruption is essential to preserving a working democracy that people have confidence in. I said that time and again on the campaign trail, and that's why it's such a high priority for me.
Josh Hawley
Time
Me
Democracy
Confidence
Corruption
People
Fighting
Preserving
High
High Priority
Said
Priority
Campaign
Trail
Essential
Again
Public
Working
Why
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
Joshua Lederberg
Great
Blessing
Recognition
Colleagues
Attention
Mixed
Public
Your
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
Joshua Lederberg
Privacy
Personality
Important
Own
Think
Some
My Own
Small
Although
Am
Still
Dosage
Public
Little
Prefer
Public Figure
Figure
Keep
Shy
That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.
Joshua Micah Marshall
Integrity
Will
Section
Some
About
Bosses
Lawyers
Investigation
Go
His
Forever
Jury
Just
Want
Grand
Grand Jury
Decisions
Public
Show
Who
Al
Eventually
Cards
The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Vital
Put
Primarily
Uncover
Journalism
New
Context
New Information
Condition
Improve
Human
Information
Human Condition
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Use
Function
Public influence is the real government of the world.
Josiah Warren
Government
World
Real
Influence
Public
Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Joy Reid
Failure
Care
Liberal
Secure
Has-Been
Obama
Part
Sharpest
Insurance
Been
Years
Option
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Public
Act
I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
Joyce DiDonato
Time
Experience
Gift
Try
Stage
Every
Every Time
Take
Step
Participate
Know
Make
Real
Public
Really
Granted
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
Juan Cole
Time
Conflict
People
Slight
East
Most
Were
Middle
Middle East
Interest
Interested
Public
Public Interest
Specialty
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.
Juan Cole
Change
World
Responsibility
Big
Sense
September
Marked
Respond
About
Islamic
Felt
Islamic World
Big Change
Interested
Public
Suddenly
Professor
University
One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.
Juan Enriquez
Health
Good
Legal
Good Things
National
Energy
Research
Project
Spent
About
Part
Implications
Budget
Institute
Genome
Department
Human
Public
Social
Ethical
Things
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.
Juan Williams
Universe
Would
Cable
Public
Translate
Public Radio
Radio
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
Judith Rodin
Good
Great
Genius
Wealth
Problems
Other
Extraordinary
Carnegie
Complex
Recognition
Andrew
Solve
John
Could
Had
Put
Were
Rockefeller
Years
Years Ago
Sources
Which
Public
Capital
Public Good
Used
I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.
Judy Collins
Politics
Me
Speak
World
Way
Out
Would
About
Around
American
Taught
Whether
Public
American Way
Raised
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