Public Discussion Quotes

Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.

I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

My diagnosis had been discussed in almost every major medical journal, including the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' and 'The New York Times.'

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

… it is the great mass of people, particularly women, who do not often hear government questions discussed who would really enjoy and profit from these

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

I don't like to discuss my personal life in public.

I do always try and do work that I'm going to be interested in talking about when it's released.

I don't care if people even discuss what I did. But if anyone is ever sitting around the kitchen table talking about my career, I hope they say they enjoyed watching me play. That's good enough.

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

At all times, there's discussion about the percentage of body fat I have, how I look on the ice and about how much skin a certain costume is showing.

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s: being gay was no longer criminal or shameful, but it was still not a topic for polite conversation or public discussion.

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't.

Besides, does it really matter who hacked Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton's election campaign team database? Does it? What really matters is the content shown to the community. This is what the discussion should be held about.