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“There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.”

“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.”

“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”

Passion House Interest Loss Groups Cards Ruins Temples Empires Gambling Squares Indifferent Infant Spectators Ivory

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.”

Wells Whole Waiting Interest Interesting Groups Streets Relation Picturesque

Book:Childe Hassam: American impressionist

Source: Childe Hassam: American impressionist

“Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.”

Ifs Way Christian Political Interest Acting Christianity Groups Special Evangelism Political Power Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Book:Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism

Source: Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism

“I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.”

Shows Seems Today Lasts Guy Passion Games Felt Interest Generations Groups Share My Generation

Author:Tim Henman

“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.”

“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”

Way Children Said Ideas School Lost President Interest Attitude Teacher Groups Example Offers Unions Dare Dues Protest New Ideas Representing Federation Teachers Unions

Author:Mitt Romney

“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Ends Might Law Strong Waiting Interest Groups Crime Possibility Weak Leaving Circles Arise Pursue Decent Ethical Norm Cowardly

Book:Brute Orbits

Source: Brute Orbits

“There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.”

Years Interest Rooms Break Groups Standing Vote Clinton Democrat Thirty Thirty Years Credentials Interest Groups

Author:Calvin Jillson

“Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.”

Years Interest Groups Special My Family Supporter Special Interests Madison Interest Groups Milwaukee Special Interest Groups

Author:Mark Neumann

“I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.”

Should Three Interest Groups Mines Strange Taste Logic Accounts Ancient Fantastic Combination Permanent Odd Abstract Strain Parallels Eccentricity

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!”

Knows Should Interest Groups Special Car Politician Paid Drivers Racing Uniforms Patches Special Interests Donation Race Car Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Author:John Wallace

“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Interest Groups Method Tyrants Coerce

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: channeling resources bilked from the general public to politically organized and influential interests groups.”

Government Interest Groups Policy Politician Succeed Resources Smoke Organized Influential Channeling General Public Interest Groups Government Policy Blowing Smoke

Author:Robert Higgs

“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”

People Ifs Want Should Trying Mean Language Interest Common Accepting Audience Groups Please Taste Sake Aliens Neglect Idols Should I No Respect

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.”

Strong Nations Interest Justice Groups Weak Injustice Progressive Adjusting

Book:Essays in Social Justice

Source: Essays in Social Justice

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.”

Trying States Dream Interest Powerful Groups Succeed Standards Gold Impact Profound Leaving Operations Affected Monetary Monetary System Gold Standard

Author:Robert Gilpin

“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.”

“Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.”

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Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.”

Kind Different Done Political Difficult Interest Cities Groups Skills Complexes Immense Interest Groups American Cities

Author:William J. Mitchell

“The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.”

People Ifs Looks Might Politics Interest Groups Special Vote Election Fortune Enormous Special Interests Expenditures Interest Groups Special Interest Groups

Book:Speaking up

Source: Speaking up

“I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.”

“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

Made Age Moving Interest Generations Groups Stage Citizens Target Adolescence Senior Artifacts Midlife Senior Citizen Stages Of Life Interest Groups

Author:Jill Lepore

“Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.”

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Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.”

Ifs Doe Happens Interest Leader Groups Influence Loyalty Collectives Divided

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.”

Want Giving Hands Interest Groups Special Good Friend American Politics Special Interests Interest Groups Special Interest Groups Walter Mondale

Author:Ernest Hollings

“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.”

Thinking Art Important Reality Interest Challenges Powerful Groups Function Accepted Interest Groups

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.”

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Author:Robert Scheer

“The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.”

Has Beens States Interest Groups Oil Assets Interest Groups Bulgaria

Author:Ivan Krastev

“It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this view is that traditional and nontraditional families can all be seen to serve the interests of children. Children can also feel comfortable with an approved family form, even if it is not traditional.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.”

Ends Interest My Own Views Issues Groups Comfortable Abortion Interest Groups

Author:Stephen Harper

“Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.”

Facts Shows Jobs Courses Interest Common Groups Tvs Tv Shows Unification Common Interests

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.”

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Author:Alice Rivlin

“A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.”

Values Culture Interest Groups Awareness Members Degrees Importance Patterns Assumption Behaviour Frame Of Reference

Book:Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning

Source: Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning

“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.”

“Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.”

People Ifs Knows Writing I Can Order Sex Interest Support Groups Research Phones Illness Topics Forums Support Groups

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.”

Country Political Politics Term Interest Careers Groups Special Politician Spending Special Interests Prioritize Interest Groups Term Limits Special Interest Groups Career Politicians

Author:Tom Coburn

“It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?”

Should Motivational Running Interest Groups Identity Please India

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.”

Men Giving Persons Government Form Interest Democracy Groups Activity Men And Women Selfish Welfare Free Man Forms Of Government General Welfare Government And Society

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.”

Made Seems Interest Party Leader Class Groups Taught Limits Pressure Aim Democratic Following Factors Appeals Republic Unifying Pressure Groups Bismarck

Author:Paul Johnson

“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”

Persons Ideas Interest Groups Materials Ideals Mentality Conventional Commonplace Philistines

Book:Lectures on Russian Literature

Source: Lectures on Russian Literature

“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”

Ifs Believe Matter Interest Lines Chance Support Groups Lows Percent Average Organized Flats Zero Voters Elites Probability Interest Groups

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.”

“In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.”

People May Mean Matter Order Interest Natural Hurt Pleasure Groups Ideals Aim No Matter What Interfere Natural Order

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.”

States Interest Groups Special Prisoner Special Interests Interest Groups Head Of State Special Interest Groups

Author:Deepak Chopra

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