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. — Jimmy Carter
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups. — Paul Krugman
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. — Linda McQuaig
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. — Angela Merkel
Today everything's a conflict of interest. — Sid Vicious
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups. — Arthur Levitt
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama
The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class. — Mayer Amschel Rothschild
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. — Sean O'Casey
The GSEs became powerful advocates for their own bottom lines, providing substantial financial support for political candidates who supported the GSE agenda. — Jerome Powell
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes — Gore Vidal
Short Interested Quotes
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur. — David Chase
I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it — Socrates
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. — Paul Muldoon
Success is never so interesting as struggle — Willa Cather
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. — John C. Bogle
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. — Jo Nesbo
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. — Gianni Versace
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. — Ernst Haas
Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts. — Kris Saknussemm
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. — William Ralph Inge
Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful. — Helen Mirren
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. — Roland Barthes
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
Special Interest Groups Quotes
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite
We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots. — Ronald Reagan
When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’. — Ronald Reagan
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie. — Ron Howard
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. — Mark Neumann
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting. — Murray Rothbard
If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you're interested.
Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise. — T. J. Rodgers
Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by. — Arlo Guthrie
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. — Laura Schlessinger
Specialty Quotes
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others — G-Dragon
My specialty is sleeping and my hobby is also sleeping. — Jessica Jung
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses. — Edward Abbey
You show you worth by what you seek.
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. — Michael Porter
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty. — Betsey Johnson
Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits. — Yehudi Menuhin
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson
If we had to pick our group’s specialty, it would be performance. — Lisa Manoban
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred. — Michael Behe
I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. — Charles de Lint
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip. — Dave Barry
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — Madonna Ciccone
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. — James Dashner
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. — Stella Gibbons
Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet. — Sean Lock
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. — David Attenborough
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. — Michel Foucault
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. — Dale Carnegie
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. — Srinivasa Ramanujan
Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. — Richard P. Feynman
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. — John Glenn
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. — Adam Smith
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