Top 1200 Public Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

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

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

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.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

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.

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.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled, for the public good.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

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.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of” their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

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

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

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

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

The public has no interest in whether the President acts boldly or timidly in his personal affairs.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.