A Quote by Michael Gove

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
British - Politician
Born: August 26, 1967

It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

Martin O'Malley

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Anthony Albanese

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

Carlos Curbelo

Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.

Shehbaz Sharif

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

Doug Bandow

The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

Joseph Nye

It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

Vladimir Lenin

When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.

Sanjaya Baru

America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that unlike other countries, we have a remedy.

Tom Malinowski

The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.

Michael Franti

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

John Lanchester

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.

Donald Trump

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Simon Sinek

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

Karl Marx

In 'Profiles in Courage,' my grandfather, John F. Kennedy, praised leadership that put country above party, elevated principles over petty politics and promoted progress before personal interests.

Jack Schlossberg

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

Chris Christie

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