Top 1200 Special Interest Quotes & Sayings

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.

Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.

There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Let's prove that we're going to stand together, make the smart decisions that will get the economy going and growing for everybody, not just those at the top, that we will stand up against special privilege and special interest.

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.

It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

Winning is one of the most special moments. Every time I take the field it's a special moment. The fans are the ones that make it special. Because that's what we do it for.

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

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.

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.

I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.

I'm special, in a way that is good. I don't have to explain 'special.' There is no definition for special. Special speaks for itself.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet as well

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

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

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

Rules are not improved by sloganeering, fact-free letter-writing campaigns, or special pleading from interest groups.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

The Republican Party I represented proudly for 18 years did not shy away from taking on special-interest money when it conflicted with constituents' needs.

I am proudly not a politician, because I am not behold to any special interest.

I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns Trump.

What I'm clear about is that we have an opportunity through this early meeting with Donald Trump to start that process of building on that special relationship, that special relationship which is on our national interest, and I think that we can together not just build that special relationship but do it in a way that is good for both for us and good more widely.

Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.