Top 1200 Vested Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.

In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

A comprehensive approach to a two-state solution is not just, we believe, in Israel's interest. It's in our interest.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

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

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

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.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

It's not in our interest, nor in the interest of other countries in the region, for terrorists to regroup again.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

I love this city. I'm raising my family here. I'm vested in it just like every San Diegan is. I want the best for us.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don't like it.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

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