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.
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.
I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
