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I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse. -- Bob Etheridge
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. -- Harvey Cox
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor. -- John Poindexter
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go. -- Christine Pelosi
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. -- Cornel West
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged. -- David Puttnam
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. -- Susie Orbach
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage. -- Amory Lovins
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. -- Michael E. Mann
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. -- George Soros
Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question. -- Isaiah Washington
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy. -- Jann Wenner
The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. -- Eric Alterman
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values. -- Michael Sandel
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. -- Chris Jordan
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse. -- Neil Armstrong
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. -- Rowan Williams
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. -- Paul Craig Roberts
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey. -- Safak Pavey
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. -- Deborah Tannen
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. -- Al Gore
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. -- Mark Kingwell
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship. -- Olympia Snowe
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. -- Wendy Kaminer
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. -- Michael Moore
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life. -- Henry Giroux
Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth. -- Naomi Wolf
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition. -- Camille Paglia

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