Public interest Quotes

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

— Ralph Nader

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

— James Q. Wilson

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

— Bill Moyers

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

— Solon

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

— W. M. Kiplinger

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

— Kapil Sibal

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

— Keir Starmer

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

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

— Jake Bugg

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public…

— Benjamin Butler

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

— Arlen Specter

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect…

— Arlen Specter

I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against…

— Andrew Neil

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

— Reed Hundt

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

— Kevin Spacey

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the…

— Pat Robertson

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised,…

— Kapil Sibal

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

People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose…

— Tharman Shanmugaratnam

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for…

— Raghuram Rajan

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

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

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

“The way we’ve set up corporations, even a majority vote of stockholders cannot demand that a corporation’s policies reflect the public good…

— David Suzuki

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote…

— Adam Smith

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not…

— Helen Grant

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the…

— Woodrow Wilson

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

I had a detailed plan for my life, but it turned out life had a completely different plan for me. And I…

— Al Gore

The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of…

— John Marshall Harlan II

The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone…

— Marco Pirroni

“pass across virtually all areas of public policy. As Frederick Winslow Taylor’s principles of scientific management gained traction, progressives began to see…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

“what I defend above all is the possibility and the necessity of the critical intellectual, who is firstly critical of the intellectual…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“You see, I’m a bachelor , a man of no consequence and not used to society; besides, I have nothing before me,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil…

— Hans Zinsser

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and…

— Carl Sagan

“Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s…

— Paul Johnson

“There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

“In the United States, the two-party system works as a way to manufacture an artificial group identity, akin to an ethnic or…

— Jason F. Stanley