It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest. — William Binney Copy Share Image
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“One must Judge Patents of Public Funded Institutions in India by their Inventive Contribution, not financial or commercial value they have generated.… — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Judicial Watch will continue its various independent lawsuits and investigations, on behalf of the public interest, into the Clinton Foundation and the… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest.… — Jason Stearns Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
“The way we’ve set up corporations, even a majority vote of stockholders cannot demand that a corporation’s policies reflect the public good… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it's a sign of a gotcha political system that's looking to take down public interest candidates that they make a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
“The media have indeed informed the public about threats to our air, water and food. Ever since 1962, when Rachel Carson published… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“To separate the Adivasi from his land is to stop his breathing. If you want to see an Adivasi's extinction, take him… — Ram dayal munda Copy Share Image
“…have you noticed, Rodion Romanovitch, that in our Petersburg circles, if two clever men meet who are not intimate, but respect each… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the… — Clarence W. Barron Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with… — William Peter Hamilton Copy Share Image
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
