Public Interest Quotes - Page 5

• I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Political, Needs, Development

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

  Edward Snowden

  Acting, States, Interest

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• 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

  Virtue, Interest, Paragon

  "Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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

  Newt Gingrich

  Trump, Interest

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

  Jill Stein

  People, Needs, Hours

  Fuente: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Determined, Now And Then

  Fuente: www.cbc.ca

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• Creo que es un signo de un sistema político que busca derribar a los candidatos de interés público que hacen un gran problema de un comentario a un padre preocupado por la exposición de los niños pequeños a Wi-Fi. Ahora resulta que el Wi-Fi no se ha probado. Un amplio estudio de los NIH [Institutos Nacionales de Salud] publicado hace un mes planteaba serias dudas sobre si los niños deberían estar expuestos, si los niños pequeños deberían estar expuestos a la Wi-Fi. Y no digo que deban o no deban, sino que debería estudiarse. Por supuesto que debería estudiarse.

  Jill Stein

  Niños, Niños, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.

  Cornel West

  Jobs, Educational, Skills

  "Cornel West reconsidera al presidente Obama". "Talk of the Nation" con Tony Cox, www.npr.org. 2 de agosto de 2010.

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• The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Past, House, Political

  "¿Qué demonios creen que lo está causando?". Entrevista con John Dickerson, www.slate.com. 8 de diciembre de 2009.

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• Decir que sólo pueden regularse las empresas afectadas de interés público no es sino otra forma de afirmar que todas las empresas susceptibles de ser reguladas están afectadas de interés público.

  Harlan F. Stone

  May, Way, Interest

  Tyson and Brother v. Banton, 273 U.S. 418, (451), 1927.

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

  Mark Twain

  Accumulation, Interest

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

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• The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Men, Issues, Freedom Of Speech

  Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 1967.

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• ¿Por qué una mujer lleva un arma? Porque, bajo nuestro sistema, cada ciudadano tiene la latitud de actuar en ausencia de la policía; la latitud de actuar razonablemente, de actuar inmediatamente, de actuar en defensa de sí mismo, de actuar en defensa de otro, de actuar con fuerza letal, de actuar con su entrenamiento adquirido y de actuar no con ira sino de responder con propósito. Para ejercer las protecciones de esa latitud en el orden público, el interés público y la seguridad práctica, todo lo que se le exige es que actúe razonablemente dadas las circunstancias.

  John Longenecker

  Exercise, Gun, Self

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• Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

  William J. Clinton

  Democracy, Doe, Honorable

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• Tengo el presentimiento de una América en tiempos de mis hijos o nietos - [......] cuando los asombrosos poderes tecnológicos estén en manos de unos pocos, y nadie que represente el interés público pueda siquiera comprender los problemas; cuando la gente haya perdido la capacidad de establecer sus propias agendas o de cuestionar con conocimiento de causa a los que tienen autoridad; cuando, aferrados a nuestros cristales y consultando nerviosamente nuestros horóscopos, nuestras facultades críticas en declive, incapaces de distinguir entre lo que nos hace sentir bien y lo que es verdad, nos deslicemos, casi sin darnos cuenta, de nuevo hacia la superstición y la oscuridad.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hands, America

  "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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• We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Acceptance, Past, Incentives

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• With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

  Herbert Schiller

  Deregulation, Economy, Authority

  "Vivir en el país número uno". Libro de Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

  Alfred Kahn

  Mean, Imperfection, Competition

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• 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.

  Lista Friedrich

  May, Welfare, Individual

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). "Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie".

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• Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.

  John Adams

  Real, Passion, Government

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• 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

  Country, Winning, Government

  John Moody (1921). "Los constructores del ferrocarril: Crónica de la soldadura de los Estados".

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• Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Hands, People

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• The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Office, People

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• Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

  Wright Patman

  Politics, Economy, Members

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• Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

  Mark Steyn

  Mean, Doe, Body

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.50, Regnery Publishing

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