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Public Interest Quotes

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

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

Aldo Leopold
Conservation, Interest, Public Interest
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.473, Library of America

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

Newton N. Minow
Mean, Interest, Public Interest
Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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

Solon
Fame, Interest, Public Interest

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

Mark Twain
Accumulation, Interest, Public Interest
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.275, Univ of California Press

Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.

Newt Gingrich
Trump, Interest, Public Interest
Source: www.npr.org

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

Bill Moyers
Integrity, Interest, Public Interest

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