The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,… — Edmund Burke 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
The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest,… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public… — Joan Konner Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are… — Bart Gordon Copy Share Image
By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose… — Tharman Shanmugaratnam Copy Share Image
“Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Alyque and his team began a public interest ad campaign (for which Lintas had become famous) to raise aid for drought stricken… — Teesta Setalvad Copy Share Image
The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the… — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image
The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I… — Nigel S. Wright Copy Share Image
The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised,… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The American people deserve to know what's on Trump's tax returns. And Trump must show that he truly embraces accountability and transparency… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“These days, instead of turning to myths and legends, we look to our own modern oracle: Google. And Google, in turn, looks… — Carrie S.I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by… — William Jennings Bryan 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
Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. But if he… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector - the state will always be… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“to pursue your own interests is prudent; to pursue the public interest as well is pious; but to pursue your own pleasure… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
![“The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f3/thomas-jefferson-43_bankers_the-issuing-power-of-money-should-be-tak_636375.jpg)
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