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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. — Winston S. Churchill

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

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

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

There is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C. — Bill Moyers

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

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas. — W. M. Kiplinger

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

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

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

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

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

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. — Robertson Davies

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

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

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

I think the police and the FBI are quite capable of sacrificing the rights of a private citizen to what they consider the public interest. — Rex Stout

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

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest. — Elie Metchnikoff

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

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. — Oscar Wilde

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

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs. — Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table. — Arianna Huffington

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

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

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god . — Socrates

The public is not interested in news in the public interest. — Terry Pratchett

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. — James Q. Wilson

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. — Alice Rivlin

The closest Apollo had ever come to expressing an interest in the opposite sex was the door signs of public bathrooms. — Jonathan Dunne

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

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

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

I lost interest in being in the public eye. — Phoebe Snow

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

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

But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences. — Jonathan Haidt

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

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently. — Walter Lippmann

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

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

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

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

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

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest. — Steven Magee

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein

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

Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

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

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

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. — Jimmy Breslin

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

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

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

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

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals. — Tim Rice

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

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

The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what's in the public interest is not what the public is interested in. — Terry Pratchett

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

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

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

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest. — Solon

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

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

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. — William H. Prescott

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

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux

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

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

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. — Alfred Doblin

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

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