#rests

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#elected #elected officials #elections #financing #going

I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#away #cannot #four #going #i

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#believe #genuine #i #i believe #i believe the

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. ↗

— Pythagoras

#mind #passion #reason #rests #sobriety

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeared #before #better #career #concentrate

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#demand #interests #making #principle #proletarian

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#between #choose #for the people #forget #i

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#being #between #dark #i #interests

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged