Interests Quotes - page 14

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right. (Marcy Kaptur)
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust. View quote
Douglas Wood
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out. View quote
Marty Meehan
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart. View quote
Mike Singletary
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family. View quote
Nolan Ryan
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. View quote
Nathalie Sarraute
The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully. View quote
Nick Lampson
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism. View quote
Peter Gay
Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life. View quote
Penelope Ann Miller
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters. (Robert McChesney)
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. View quote
Robert McChesney
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic? View quote
Robert Novak
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey? View quote
Roger Wicker
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. View quote
Ron Kind
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. View quote
Ron Silver
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. View quote
Randal Cremer
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content. View quote
Steve Crocker
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. View quote
Samora Machel
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up. (Scott Stapp)
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile. View quote
Vivek Wadhwa
I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political. View quote
William Odom
Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company. View quote
Wang Jianlin