Bad thing Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Newton N. Minow

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the…

— Donna Karan

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

— James Q. Wilson

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the…

— Calvin Coolidge

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than…

— Walter E. Williams

“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

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

— W. M. Kiplinger

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if…

— John Adams

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

— Keir Starmer

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest'…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Mark Twain

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

— Alfred Kahn