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76 Public Interest quotes by 65 unique authors

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility… — Sean Lemass
You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the… — Clarence W. Barron
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that… — Juan Cole
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
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold
. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by… — John Longenecker
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. — Rowan Williams
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. — Jimmy Breslin
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the… — Milton Friedman
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention. — Milton Friedman
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,… — John Updike
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves. — Reed Hundt
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and… — William Howard Taft
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of… — Isaac Barrow
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a… — Friedrich List
It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only… — Jimmy Reid
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. — James Q. Wilson
I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some… — Alexander Downer
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be… — Bart Gordon
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges. — John Maynard Keynes
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate… — Konrad Lorenz
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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