Quotes of: Special-interest Keyword

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Paul Wellstone

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the in...

Theodore Roosevelt

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

John Hawley

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Kay Hagan

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

Austin Peck

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

Sherrod Brown

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Jimmy Carter

I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

Kirk Douglas

I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they...

Mark McKinnon

Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal an...

Education for Special Needs: Principles and Practice in Camphill Schools

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest diff...

Pirate Cinema

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

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Fran Lebowitz

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

Stephen Pagliuca

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Jim Cooper