I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.
In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.
It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.
Matrimony is not to be secret but open, in the face of the church.
The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.
They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!
My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.
Public loyalty results in private leverage.
Science is my passion; politics, my duty.
Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind
We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.
I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
