I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. — Alice Rivlin 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
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are… — Bart Gordon Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC… — Marvin Ammori 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
Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest.… — Jason Stearns Copy Share Image
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector - the state will always be… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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
Certainly polling is a tool for leadership. It's not a program for leadership. And you can abuse a tool. You can overuse… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on… — Al Gore 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
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“3. Serving Two Masters Derrick Bell has pointed out a third structure that impedes reform, this time in law. To litigate a… — Richard Delgado Copy Share Image
“I watched with incredulity as businessmen ran to the government in every crisis, whining for handouts or protection from the very competition… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
“…have you noticed, Rodion Romanovitch, that in our Petersburg circles, if two clever men meet who are not intimate, but respect each… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her… — Louis Veuillot Copy Share Image
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in… — Carl Sagan 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 information economy;… — Carl Sagan 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
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image