Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics. — James E. Grunig Copy Share Image
The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves. — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
I accept you need the right balance, people do need to know their privacy is protected, but when it's essential information which… — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Certainly polling is a tool for leadership. It's not a program for leadership. And you can abuse a tool. You can overuse… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone… — Marco Pirroni Copy Share Image
The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I… — Dave Goelz Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
“Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“pass across virtually all areas of public policy. As Frederick Winslow Taylor’s principles of scientific management gained traction, progressives began to see… — Ganesh Sitaraman Copy Share Image
“what I defend above all is the possibility and the necessity of the critical intellectual, who is firstly critical of the intellectual… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that in announcing the formation of the National Broadcasting Company, the Radio Corporation of America published a… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
“This emphasis on the difference between intentions and ultimate results constituted an implicit critique of the Christian and civic republican traditions, and… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. — Howard Gossage Copy Share Image
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest. — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public… — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image