Public Interest Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

  Al Gore

  Integrity, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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