#interests

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#comes #counsellor #enforcing #good #i

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#begging #bigger #democrats #excuse #government

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#became #berkeley #economic #interests #main

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#although #brand #common #common interests #entities

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches