Affair Quote by James Madison

“It would assume that bilateral problems could be worked out through goodwill, active diplomacy and transparency rather than suspicions and a search for “enemies.”

— Graham E. Fuller

People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments.

— Norman L. Eisen

“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

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of…

— Tony Blair

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

— Carl Schmitt

“You know, in the realm of diplomacy, we are all bound to defend and promote our respective national interests. But, there is also such…

— SBYudhoyono

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

“State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced…

— Frederick Engels

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little…

— George Washington

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection…

— George Washington