Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to speak to the American Public Transportation Association on Monday.
If we fail, however, to speak truthfully to the public about the threat both the Muslim world and the West face from our common foe, and to enlist citizens in waging this war fully and effectively, then our only hope may shortly be to ask that God save us.
And our position has been and continues to be that we need to balance First Amendment concerns of the right to demonstrate, the right to speak freely, with public safety concerns and public health concerns.
Much depends on his public standing or perhaps on the big media groups who claim to speak for the public and who have not yet called for his head.
And so there's hope among conservatives and among Republicans that they'll be able to find a new standard bearer who'd be able to speak not only to conservative voters but also to the public at large.
Robert Freeman, director of the state's Committee on Open Government, said a public body isn't required to allow the public to speak at meetings.
Mr. Barresi also said he was disappointed that no teachers or union staff came to speak at the public meeting.
When I was invited I had already committed to speak at the public library in the small town where I live.
To that end, the pilots will be broadcasting live transmissions and allowing the public to speak with them as they fly, in addition to providing access to flight planning information on the Solar Impulse website.
More broadly, aides say, the president wants to speak more about his decisions to release the so-called torture memos but not make public the prison abuse photos, as well as whether those harsh interrogation techniques really worked as former Vice President Dick Cheney keeps claiming.
She had not been motivated by wanting to speak out in the public interest, he said.
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He made a conscious decision to speak and mislead the public on Tuesday.
Banks, retailers and the police are keen not to quarrel in public, so they tend to speak from the same script.
There are many channels, there are many opportunities for the public to hear the President speak, to watch this debate -- one of many -- and we'll let that sort itself out.
Mr Dilnot said the current rules were "unsatisfactory" as they put those entitled to see the information in advance in a "difficult position" if they then had to speak in public and urged a review of the procedures.
The hearing marked the first time that administration lawyers were to speak in public and under oath about the matter since the CIA disclosed this month it destroyed the tapes of officers using tough interrogation methods while questioning two al-Qaida suspects.
Like the aristocracy before them, the thought of working in the field, so to speak, is anathema for swathes of the public sector government will not downsize itself.
Prejudice against Muslims is widespread in Myanmar, and it is hard to find public figures willing to speak in defense of the Muslim community.
Her family said she was the victim of death threats because of her willingness to speak out in public about alleged sectarianism within the security forces and collusion with loyalist terror groups.
"He is one of the few Japanese leaders who can speak his mind clearly and openly to the public and take swift action on what he believes in, " says Matsui Kiyondo, editor-in-chief of the influential monthly magazine Bungei Shunju.
In my experience, members of the public are thrilled to be able to speak to the innovator, or author, himself.
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All too often leadership is seen as the ability to speak well in public, to be persuasive, to be loud.
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The top tier of public intellectuals has come to speak mainly through upmarket news media such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books and the BBC.
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Backed by a series of talented reporters and producers over the years, he was the front man -- the "closer" so to speak -- for teams of investigative journalists and for the public.
But perhaps only Dr Mahathir has the absolute confidence to speak of it in public, even if he is denouncing it: that, after all, confirms its existence.
It seems that nearly every company I speak to in China lately plans to go public in the next year or so.
No fewer than six ministries are involved in different ways in public security, not to speak of the state governors and mayors.
"The fact is that the Open Meetings Law gives the public the right to be there, but says nothing about the right to speak, " Freeman said.
So I don't want to speak for the senator who didn't certainly use any of that information to correct what he said in public in a hearing that happens a day after.
With the public increasingly demanding accountability from the private sector, every employee needs to know how to speak for the company when necessary.
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