Famous quotes containing the words public and/or hearings:
“Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)