Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I will make utmost efforts to conduct regulatory reform by tearing down bureaucratic sectionalism, vested interests and notorious habit of following precedents. — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
What does the public want? It wants a vested interest in its own energy provision - driving more efficient behaviour. It wants… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence… — Shawn Ashmore Copy Share Image
The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates… — Viera Scheibner Copy Share Image
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, the male has a vested interest in ignorance; it gives the few knowledgeable men a decided edge on the… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“(7) In long periods of peace, ‘ambient’ doctrine may be no more than the habits of the years in which war has… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
“I have a vested interest in this thing because I want to see you happy. What you need to ask yourself is… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“The familiar claim – or ‘moral’ exhortation – that ‘if you don’t vote, you’ve no right to complain’ surely has it the… — Paul McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“A common problem plagues people who try to design institutions without accounting for hidden motives. First they identify the key goals that… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“And this parable represents man in the ordinary state of unconsciousness. It is one of the most beautiful illustrations of man as… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to go, but his arms were underneath me, easing me toward the edge of the gurney and a waiting… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
I've always supported LGBT organizations and things like that because I felt like I had a vested interest in this, where I… — Kevin McHale Copy Share Image
The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image