You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You fall a bit behind on a credit card bill, your interest rate soars, your minimum payment rises, and you start falling… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I became really absorbed but again I was at that point - and I still remain today - an outsider who has… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other. You can't spend a… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must,… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in… — Don Baylor Copy Share Image
In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The policy is anyone who's here illegally is here illegally, does not have the right to be here. We'll decide whether it's… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament. — Shaukat Aziz Copy Share Image
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
A guy knows he's in love when he loses interest in his car for a couple of days. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image