Public Interest is a term used by every politician to…

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

— Mary Ritter Beard

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill,…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Jake Bugg

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

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

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

“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

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

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