The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.” — Steven Magee 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
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest… — Kerry-Anne Walsh 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
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
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
As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic -… — Glenn Greenwald 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
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
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
On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the… — David Pietrusza Copy Share Image
“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“This emphasis on the difference between intentions and ultimate results constituted an implicit critique of the Christian and civic republican traditions, and… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“You see, I’m a bachelor , a man of no consequence and not used to society; besides, I have nothing before me,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest. — William Binney Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the… — Clarence W. Barron Copy Share Image
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