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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. – Grover Cleveland	added by Normando 3 months ago
Public relations, as with all forms of branding and marketing is manipulation. This is why you have to have a firm ethic standing to engage in these practices. – Isaac Mashman	added by isaacmashman 3 months ago
The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also. – David M. Potter	added by Normando 3 months ago
I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone. – David Carr	added by Normando 5 months ago
The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative. – Kermit Victor Lipez	added by Normando 5 months ago
As she drove across the island to meet with local officials about the opioid crisis, it occurred to her that Puerto Ricans were now suffering at the hands of another set of corporations. Fossil fuel companies had warmed the planet and misled the public about global warming, making billions along the way. It wasn’t so different from what had happened in DePue and Roxana, she thought.Then, she said, God told her to sue Exxon again. – The Holy	Found on New York Times 9 months ago
By pursuing his own interest (every individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. – Adam Smith	added by Normando 9 months ago
The fact that these stories emerge by patently legal means and are reported through interview and conversation with people who are genuine sources is a change in terms of conduct, but it does n’t suggest that there has been any change in tastes of the British public. – Professor Luckhurst	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
When you look at public opinion data from pre-Covid, during Covid and whatever this period is now; there is something different in the water in Alberta from a cultural-political perspective. – Duane Bratt	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior. – Doug Bandow	added by Normando 12 months ago
Social media is a new world that the government really hasn’t gotten ahold of yet, they generally don’t bother perusing your accounts (if they are even public-facing) absent a separate, independent reason to do so. – Brad Moss	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is quite a shift for us to be wholesale excluding documents from the public. – Catherine Cameron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[A]ccording to the modeling that we’ve very carefully done with them, the Ukrainians are in a good position, they have some weaknesses that I prefer not to talk about in public … But we are confident — in terms of their surprise and things like that. of course, we’ve worked on all that with them. – Christopher Cavoli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The legislature finds and declares that gun violence is a threat to the public health and safety of Washingtonians, assault weapons are civilian versions of weapons created for the military and are designed to kill humans quickly and efficiently. – House Bill 1240	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is just another example in a long line of examples of the justices feeling that they are wholly unaccountable to anyone, instead of treating their jobs like the public servants that they should be, they see themselves as above all of us and the rule of law itself. – Sarah Lipton-Lubet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts, if you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. The public deserves to know. – Michael Lissner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These are complicated, societal public health [issues]. – Healthcare Garth Graham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think John Fetterman saved lives by being a prominent person who stepped up and said he had a problem with mental health issues and he would seek treatment in a very visible and public way. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team. – Susan Walley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When someone can be killed in firing openly amidst the security cordon of the police, then what about the safety of the general public. – Akhilesh Yadav	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Effectively requiring Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to cease distribution of mifepristone after more than two decades would upend the status quo, severely harming women, healthcare systems, and the public. – Justice Department	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Juul lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless. Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused. – Letitia James	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the most import thing for the public to understand is that we are not a political branch of government, they don’t elect us. If they don’t like what we’re doing, it’s more or less just too bad. – John Roberts	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are funded by the British public through the licence fee. – The BBC	Found on CNN 1 year ago

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

– Grover Cleveland

added by Normando
3 months ago

Public relations, as with all forms of branding and marketing is manipulation. This is why you have to have a firm ethic standing to engage in these practices.

– Isaac Mashman

added by isaacmashman
3 months ago

The American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.

– David M. Potter

added by Normando
3 months ago

I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.

– David Carr

added by Normando
5 months ago

The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

– Kermit Victor Lipez

added by Normando
5 months ago

As she drove across the island to meet with local officials about the opioid crisis, it occurred to her that Puerto Ricans were now suffering at the hands of another set of corporations. Fossil fuel companies had warmed the planet and misled the public about global warming, making billions along the way. It wasn’t so different from what had happened in DePue and Roxana, she thought.Then, she said, God told her to sue Exxon again.

– The Holy

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

By pursuing his own interest (every individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

– Adam Smith

added by Normando
9 months ago

The fact that these stories emerge by patently legal means and are reported through interview and conversation with people who are genuine sources is a change in terms of conduct, but it does n’t suggest that there has been any change in tastes of the British public.

– Professor Luckhurst

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

When you look at public opinion data from pre-Covid, during Covid and whatever this period is now; there is something different in the water in Alberta from a cultural-political perspective.

– Duane Bratt

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow

added by Normando
12 months ago

Social media is a new world that the government really hasn’t gotten ahold of yet, they generally don’t bother perusing your accounts (if they are even public-facing) absent a separate, independent reason to do so.

– Brad Moss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is quite a shift for us to be wholesale excluding documents from the public.

– Catherine Cameron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[A]ccording to the modeling that we’ve very carefully done with them, the Ukrainians are in a good position, they have some weaknesses that I prefer not to talk about in public … But we are confident — in terms of their surprise and things like that. of course, we’ve worked on all that with them.

– Christopher Cavoli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The legislature finds and declares that gun violence is a threat to the public health and safety of Washingtonians, assault weapons are civilian versions of weapons created for the military and are designed to kill humans quickly and efficiently.

– House Bill 1240

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is just another example in a long line of examples of the justices feeling that they are wholly unaccountable to anyone, instead of treating their jobs like the public servants that they should be, they see themselves as above all of us and the rule of law itself.

– Sarah Lipton-Lubet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts, if you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. The public deserves to know.

– Michael Lissner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are complicated, societal public health [issues].

– Healthcare Garth Graham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think John Fetterman saved lives by being a prominent person who stepped up and said he had a problem with mental health issues and he would seek treatment in a very visible and public way.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

– Susan Walley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When someone can be killed in firing openly amidst the security cordon of the police, then what about the safety of the general public.

– Akhilesh Yadav

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Effectively requiring Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro to cease distribution of mifepristone after more than two decades would upend the status quo, severely harming women, healthcare systems, and the public.

– Justice Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Juul lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless. Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused.

– Letitia James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the most import thing for the public to understand is that we are not a political branch of government, they don’t elect us. If they don’t like what we’re doing, it’s more or less just too bad.

– John Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are funded by the British public through the licence fee.

– The BBC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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