Public Interest Quotes

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

Justice, Law, America

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

Today, Someone, Political

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

Deep, Public, Interest

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

Saying, Public, Interest

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

True, Two, Public

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

Powerful, Public, Interest

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

May, Nation, Public

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

Why, Public, Interest

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

Government, Win, Through

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

Long, Public, Run

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

May, Different, Face

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

Men, Society, Human

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

Public, Stuff, Interest

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

Time, Public, Interested

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

Public, Values, Interest

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

Public, Interest, Stage

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.
Alexander Downer

Matter, Public, Actually

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

Public, Meaning, Interest

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

Power, Respect, Trying

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

Children, Public, Interest

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 Stone

May, Another, Public

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