Self-Serving Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. — William J. Clinton
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
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
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. — Ginny Brown-Waite
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — Steven Spielberg
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
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals. — Frans de Waal
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
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
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
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: