Class Quote by Walter Lippmann

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

— Keir Starmer

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by…

— Denis Healey

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

— Newton N. Minow

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

— Sidney Hook

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

— Mark Twain

There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy,…

— Norman Finkelstein

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

— Sybille Bedford

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily…

— Randal Marlin

They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national…

— Mark Shields

The course of business shapes public opinion.

— Marvin Bower

“If the whole community takes a decision, actors and interests are identical: they coincide. In the case of popular sovereignty the people are the…

— Leo Klinkers

Public interest is a very unruly horse.

— Kapil Sibal