Famous quotes containing the words public and/or debates:
“Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)