Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground. — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Call me old fashioned, but I like hearing viewers' real thoughts, not the ones special interest groups pay them to tweet. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to… — Laisenia Qarase Copy Share Image
As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats. — Walker Stapleton Copy Share Image
Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
“James Madison made clear in Federalist 51 that that this elaborate structure—today often derided as “ gridlock ”—was created to protect individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
“But it is not necessarily the case that liberal democracy is the political system best suited to resolving social conflicts per se.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
“corporate special interest groups rely heavily on one strategy: divide and conquer. We win when more people participate and when we unite… — David Akadjian Copy Share Image
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because… — Calvin Jillson Copy Share Image
But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
