Public Interest Quotes

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.

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

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

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.