Public Interest Quotes
76 quotes by 69 authors
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
— Ayn Rand
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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church…
— Abraham Lincoln
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...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
— Bill Moyers
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If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of…
— Graeme Samuel
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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in…
— William Howard Taft
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People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is…
— Tharman Shanmugaratnam
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
— Ralph Nader
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The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my…
— Dave Goelz
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It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
— Arlen Specter
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Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional…
— Joan Konner
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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
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Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.
— W. M. Kiplinger
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Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
— Edward Snowden
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is…
— Cardinal Richelieu
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Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and…
— Thomas R. Pickering
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We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally'…
— Mark Halperin
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A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
— William Peter Hamilton
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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that…
— James L. Buckley
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Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if…
— Peter Diamandis
Who Wrote These Public Interest Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 76 Public Interest Quotes, led by these top contributors: