Attention Quote by Alice Rivlin Download Open image “Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.” — Alice Rivlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Groups Interest Interest groups Pay Politician Politics Public interest
Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas. — W. M. Kiplinger Copy Share Image
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree. — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do… — Juanita M. Kreps Copy Share
One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress]… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
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