Self-Serving Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
— Diane Abbott
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
— William J. Clinton
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The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
— Aldrich Ames
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As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
— Mark Hatfield
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The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write…
— Steven Moffat
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
— Mark Strand
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It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be…
— Sean Parker
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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a…
— Liam Fox
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The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need…
— Simon Mainwaring
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from…
— Howard Schultz
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There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
— Steven Spielberg
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John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington,…
— Matt Taibbi
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We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
— Frans de Waal
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information.…
— Patrick Soon-Shiong
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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving…
— Thomas Woods
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I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be…
— Robin Marantz Henig
Who Wrote These Self-Serving Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Self-Serving Quotes as follows: