Done Quote by Edmund Burke

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

— James Q. Wilson

“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities…

— Nancy MacLean

What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

— Newton N. Minow

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

— Mark Twain

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

— W. M. Kiplinger

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

— Sidney Hook

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

— Keir Starmer

“The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions…

— Robert David Steele

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed…

— Mark Steyn

We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

— Kapil Sibal