#interests

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans. ↗

— John B. Larson

#interests #lobby #older #put #wrong

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#ask #business #dreams #him #his

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#along #always #arrested #because #go

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. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#behind #broadcast #closed #commercial #congressional

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. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#average #being #citizens #few #gets

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. ↗

— George William Norris

#account #biased #interests #judgment #often

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#amongst #anne #art #associated #her

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#answer #corporate #corporate interests #doing #i

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. ↗

— William Odom

#bin #both #drain #huge #i

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#come #gardening #helping #helping people #hindsight