Best conflict & conflict-of-interest Quotes

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

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Author:Carl Paladino

“What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.”

“The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.”

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Book:Essays in Social Justice

Source: Essays in Social Justice

“Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.”

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Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.”

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Author:Kathleen Clark

“Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.”

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Author:Martin Gore

“I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?”

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Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.”

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Author:Aaron Rose

“I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.”

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Author:Stephin Merritt

“The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to take advantage from me.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.”

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Author:Alex Epstein

“I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.”

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Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive. Initial needs have to be met first, and then later things like patriotism come in.”

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Author:Donna M. Loring

“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.”

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Author:Michael F. Jacobson

“We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.”

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Author:George Stephanopoulos

“Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.”

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Author:Mark Shields

“What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.”

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Author:E. J. Dionne

“[Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you're looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“We learned that President-elect [Donald] Trump intends to keep his executive producer title on Celebrity Apprentice. We know he's going to come out later this week and talk about how he's going to handle the overall conflicts of interests, perhaps, with his businesses in the White House.”

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Author:George Stephanopoulos

“I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“For Donald Trump's business partners around the world, including the developers of this luxury golf course in Dubai, what some in the U.S. may see as a conflict of interest is, for them, money in the bank.”

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Author:Brian Ross

“[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.”

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Author:Norman L. Eisen

“[Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.”

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Author:Norman L. Eisen

“Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.”

“It's even more important for the integrity of the country if there are conflicts of interest in an administration, if there are things being done that they shouldn't do - and I hope there won't be, but if there were, you have to go and prosecute.”

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Author:Patrick Leahy

“When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.”

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Author:Donatella Versace

“There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”

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Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.”

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Author:Miles Teller

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