More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
I had a very public battle with anorexia.
Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving.
I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.
Too many public and private entities simply don't take advantage of tools already at their disposal to protect themselves from hackers. No amount of information sharing will help solve that problem.
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.
We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.
It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
I have always been a strong supporter of public lands and have voted against the transfer or sale of public lands. My position is known and well-established.
This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
