We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
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Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Few Americans—or members of Congress—read The Public Interest. Still, the rapid rise of the "neo-cons" to intellectual respectability was revealing. And their… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Arthur Church, who as I say took local journalism very seriously, wrote an eloquent defence of reporting even the nasty things. The… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
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If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against… — Richard Cornuelle Copy Share Image
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We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
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