Interest Groups Quotes

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The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

You can't be all things to all people.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

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.

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

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.

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

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

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.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

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

The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

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.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.