Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the…

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

— Archibald Cox

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

“People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it…

— Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall…

— Sean Lemass

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and…

— Juan Cole

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

— Mark Twain

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other…

— Warren E. Burger

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

— Jake Bugg

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is…

— John Kennedy

“To separate the Adivasi from his land is to stop his breathing. If you want to see an Adivasi's extinction, take him away from…

— Ram dayal munda

Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future…

— Peter Diamandis