Politicians and corporations have always placed economic…

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

— Guillermo del Toro

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse -…

— David Puttnam

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

— Joshua Wong

The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to…

— Robert Nozick

To protect the national security interests, economic interests, and moral interests of the United States and our allies in the Indo-Pacific, I urge the…

— Bill Hagerty

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…

— Howard Zinn

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you…

— Condoleezza Rice

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that…

— Vaclav Havel

Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

— Allen W. Wood

“Within this stable and secure environment people had the ability and the incentive to pursue their own economic interests.”

— Edward A. Hudson

I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send…

— Anand Giridharadas

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Barack Obama

The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that…

— Van Jones

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it…

— Simone Weil