Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest. — Alfred Kahn Copy Share Image
No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am concerned about epistemic normativity, and I don't think that it is just a hangover from a priori and armchair approaches.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries;… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen. — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. — Bulent Ecevit Copy Share Image
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business.… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage Copy Share Image
I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
If you have a passion or interest don't be afraid of what other people think and say. Don't stop believing yourself — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image