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"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."
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"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."
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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
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"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
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"The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families."
Food

"The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to."
Food

"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
Animals

"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course."
History

"The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms."
Environment

"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."
Age

"It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic."
Life

"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity."
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"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."
Public

"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."
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