The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I… — Dave Goelz Copy Share Image
“what I defend above all is the possibility and the necessity of the critical intellectual, who is firstly critical of the intellectual… — Pierre Bourdieu 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
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
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
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
Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas. — W. M. Kiplinger 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
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently. — Walter Lippmann 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
I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect… — Arlen Specter 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
What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree. — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they… — Edward Snowden 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
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us. — Bob Woodward 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
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“A foreign enemy out to destroy America could not have devised a more effective and insidious plot. How ironic that this was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics. — James E. Grunig Copy Share Image
The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense. — Edward Snowden 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
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image