Top 1200 Vested Interests Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

I realized I need to do a better job of opening up other interests because my interests are sports, my family, my faith and my friends. That's it. That's all I got.

A lot of the quote-unquote interests that I have are not really interests.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do the other countries involved.

Donald Trump recognizes that a good leader is going to protect America's interests by making sure that we have a relationship with Russia: that our interests are protected, not theirs.

Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

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.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

I'm alarmed at what's happening in Canada. I'm vested here.

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Pakistan should be a moderate Islamic state. That it should be a prosperous country is in India's interests, and it is in the world's interests.

I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

I represent 740,000 people who live in Brooklyn and in Staten Island. And I have to vote the way I see is in their interests and their interests only.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

I think that in terms of the American interests, I would feel more safe with a President Trump representing those interests to the world.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

We're at the start of the process of talking about a trade deal. We're both very clear that we want a trade deal. It will be in the interests of the UK from my point of view, that's what I'm going to be taking in, into the trade discussions that take place in due course. Obviously [Donald Trump] will have the interests of the US. I believe we can come to an agreement that is in the interests of both.

We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.

It's very important to follow up after the defeat of Daesh militarily. It's not in our interests, nor in the interests of other countries in the region, for them to regroup again.

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

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

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.