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