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Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas. -- W. M. Kiplinger
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. -- James Q. Wilson
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. -- Solon
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves. -- Reed Hundt
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us. -- Bob Woodward
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. -- Kevin Spacey
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest. -- Jake Bugg
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
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. -- Sal Albanese
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. -- Pat Robertson
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. -- Warren E. Burger
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 watching. -- Bart Gordon
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 men. -- Isaac Barrow
I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. -- Peter Benchley
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. -- Mo Ibrahim
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 was not my specialty. -- Juan Cole
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 part of its members. -- Friedrich List
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times. -- King Felipe VI
To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest. -- Harlan F. Stone
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well. -- Adam Davidson
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 the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. -- James L. Buckley
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate. -- Bob Schieffer
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 too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret. -- Jimmy Reid
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is. -- Edward Snowden
My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact. -- Nigel S. Wright
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to maximize profit. An aspect of serving the public is to use the immense power of electronic media to reflect evolving standards of respect for other people. -- Reed Hundt
Whatever concerns health is of real public interest. -- Elie Metchnikoff
I lost interest in being in the public eye. -- Phoebe Snow
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. -- Gustave Flaubert
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. -- William H. Prescott
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. -- Alice Rivlin
...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C. -- Bill Moyers
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. -- Donald J. Boudreaux
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. -- Walter Benjamin
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty. -- Ralph Nader
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. -- Aldo Leopold
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. -- Mark Twain
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. -- Mitch Kapor
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. -- Sidney Hook
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. -- Alfred Doblin
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. -- Arlen Specter
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. -- Cato the Elder
The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense. -- Edward Snowden
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. -- John Galt
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. -- Robertson Davies
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. -- William J. Clinton
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. -- Gore Vidal
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. -- Winston Churchill
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics. -- James E. Grunig
I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can. -- Nadya Suleman
Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them. -- Newt Gingrich
I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once. -- Stephen Hawking
corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. -- Arianna Huffington
What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree. -- Newton N. Minow
Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. -- Alfred Kahn
As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West. -- Chris Abani
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest. -- Al Gore
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest. -- Edward Snowden
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently. -- Walter Lippmann
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms. -- Jose Andres Puerta
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
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
I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them. -- Johnny Carson
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. -- Steve Coogan
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. -- Charles Darwin
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame -- John Adams
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. -- Oscar Wilde
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
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
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. -- Joseph Hume
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt. -- Thomas Frank
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. -- Benjamin Butler
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
You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest. -- Joanne Froggatt
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony. -- Dalai Lama
We know there is real interest from the American public in having easy access to the new, affordable choices in the Health Insurance Marketplace. -- Todd Park
As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans. -- Bernie Sanders
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest. -- Richard Cornuelle
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters. -- Thomas Paine
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. -- John Moody
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
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done. -- Edmund Burke
Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. -- Albert Einstein
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. -- Evan Bayh
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 orphan. -- Clarence W. Barron
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest. -- Mark Begich
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested. -- Herbert Schiller
Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability. -- Wright Patman
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest. -- Pierre Omidyar
. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force. -- John Longenecker
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world -- Karl Taylor Compton
The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat. -- Nancy Gibbs
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so. -- Eli Pariser
Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind. -- Hyman Rickover
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. -- Joseph Butler
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. -- Karl Rove
I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest. -- Edward Snowden
If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything. -- Edward Snowden
Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest. -- Jill Stein
The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest. -- Robert L. Payton
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' accountable when the facts don't warrant that. -- Mark Halperin
Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them. -- Mark Steyn
To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest. -- Harlan F. Stone
Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over. -- Joan Konner
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 possible than to show leniency to those who violate it. -- Cardinal Richelieu

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