Public Interest Quotes

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.

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the ‘banks too big to fail.’

In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

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

I don’t feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and 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.

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.

When a donor is asked to contribute to a group whose innocuous-sounding name makes it appear to be doing work in the public interest, that donor should have a clear picture of where his or her money is going.

The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn’t make us safe, and that applies whether it’s in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy.

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

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

Whatever concerns health is of real public 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.

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

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.

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.

I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn’t turn over, because harming people isn’t my goal. Transparency is.

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.

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

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

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government’s ability to do all this well.

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.

From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector – the state will always be forced to step in where there is a clear public interest.

I’m proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.

The president may have the raw constitutional power to, say, squelch an investigation or to pardon a close associate. But if he does so not to serve the public interest, but to serve his own, he surely could be removed from office, even if he has not committed a criminal act.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

The American people deserve to know what’s on Trump‘s tax returns. And Trump must show that he truly embraces accountability and transparency and understands what it means to work on behalf of the public interest.

I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I’ll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.

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.

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

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

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

I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.

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

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.