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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
Sal Albanese
Abuse Of Power
Political
Power
Employees
Intolerable
Advancing
Abuse
Supposed
Campaigns
Interest
Public
Working
Public Interest
Who
Actually
It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.
Jeremy Corbyn
Fear
Important
Politicians
Ministers
Favour
Ability
Without
Account
Hold
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Act
Public Servants
Servants
Defend
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.
Pierre Omidyar
Work
Way
Independent
Possible
Developed
Support
Journalists
Supporting
Greatest
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Extent
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.
Adam Davidson
Government
Business
Progressive
System
Security
Ability
About
Share
Support
Most
Majority
Well
American
Tax
Interest
Public
Skepticism
Social
Tax System
Public Interest
Deep
Social Security
Medicare
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.
Andrew Neil
Unions
Destroying
Corrupt
Part
Major
Major Part
Operated
Proud
Interest
Against
Public
Fleet
Public Interest
Street
Played
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
Arlen Specter
Today
Political
Rarity
Someone
Risk
Takes
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Washington
The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'
Arthur Laffer
Entitled
Name
Jude
Got
How
Revenues
Article
Begins
Curve
Story
Interest
Public
Taxes
Public Interest
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
Bob Woodward
Guidance
Throat
Providing
Did
Information
Interest
Public
Us
Public Interest
Deep
Serve
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
Welfare
Nation
Own
Members
Promoting
General
General Welfare
Individual
Part
Check
His
May
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Injure
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
Obligations
Men
Society
Benefit
Possible
Highest
Human
Wherefore
Laid
Interest
Public
Should
Public Interest
Requisite
Human Society
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.
Jake Bugg
You
Think
Papers
Stuff
Know
Make
Always
Up
Just
Interest
Public
Gonna
Public Interest
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.
Jimmy Reid
Good
Happy
Too
Secret
Our
Only
Know
Doing
Doing Good
Up
Governors
Want
Interest
Public
Then
Us
Public Interest
Let Us
Kept
In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.
Joaquim Barbosa
Politics
Power
Country
Important
Brazil
Our
Evolving
Would
Would-Be
Vanity
About
Paris
He
Emperor
Weird
Himself
Lot
Friends
Very
Model
Role
Person
Role Model
Interest
Public
Ask
Much
Public Interest
Help
Lived
Second
Cared
I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.
John Mayer
Hope
Me
You
People
Think
Enough
Everyone
Records
Part
Deluded
Name
Like
Know
Knows
Making
Still
Listener
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Who
The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Vital
Put
Primarily
Uncover
Journalism
New
Context
New Information
Condition
Improve
Human
Information
Human Condition
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Use
Function
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
Conflict
People
Slight
East
Most
Were
Middle
Middle East
Interest
Interested
Public
Public Interest
Specialty
Public interest is a very unruly horse.
Kapil Sibal
Horse
Unruly
Very
Interest
Public
Public Interest
New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.
Letitia James
Will
Long
Nation
Too
Other
Our
Once
Hundreds
States
Must
City
Follow
Only
Divest
Invested
New
Know
Undermining
Greater
Does
Dollars
York
Walmart
New York
New York City
Interest
Public
Far
Public Interest
Largest
Millions
Violence
Millions Of Dollars
Suit
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.
Mo Ibrahim
Positive
Few
Too
Lobbying
Market
Seemingly
Between
Never-Ending
Also
Operating
Up
Expansion
Interest
Against
Public
Far
Public Interest
Incentives
Perverse
TDP is always very assertive for public interest.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Always
Very
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Assertive
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
Rights
Law
Law Firm
Firm
America
American
Center
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Premier
Believers
Founded
Defending
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.
Raghuram Rajan
Capitalism
Competition
Opportunity
Free
Harmful
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Economic
Economic Growth
Democratic
Interest
Public
Interests
Public Interest
Transparency
Special
Special Interests
Expression
Growth
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.
Reid Hoffman
Work
People
Accountability
Must
Embraces
He
Know
Returns
Understands
Truly
Trump
Behalf
American
Tax
Interest
Public
Tax Returns
American People
Means
Public Interest
Transparency
Show
Deserve
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
Tim Rice
Stage
Musicals
Huge
Interest
Public
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.
William Binney
Intelligence
Past
Revealing
Said
Targets
In The Past
Interest
Public
Successes
Public Interest
Activities
Specific
Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.
Winnie Byanyima
Needs
World
Few
Citizens
Global
Governance
Just
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Works
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