A Quote by W. M. Kiplinger
Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.
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If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.
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