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
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 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
“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
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold… — Mark Halperin 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
There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests… — Sue Gardner Copy Share Image
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens… — Milton Friedman 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
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I think that different leaders, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we're not going to turn on… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“Life, Liberty, Property, the Pursuit of Happiness: These are the rights our government was created to protect. When the government confiscates your… — Debi Ghate Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“The goal is all-out war on the public sphere and the public interest, whether in the form of antipollution regulations or programs… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Few Americans—or members of Congress—read The Public Interest. Still, the rapid rise of the "neo-cons" to intellectual respectability was revealing. And their… — James T. Patterson 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
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
It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it?… — Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest,… — Edward Snowden 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
