Conflict Of Interest Quotes

• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Jessica Savitch

  Attitude, Focus, Prejudice

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, Incentives

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Care, Conflict, Interest

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

  Martin Gore

  Song, Band, Use

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• 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.

  Carl Paladino

  Government, Self, People

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• A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Long, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Ideas, Justice, Needs

  Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

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• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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

  Charles Schumer

  Running, President, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Choices, Would Be, Financial

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• 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.

  Chuck Todd

  New York, Law, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Aaron Rose

  Directors, Done, Territory

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• 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.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Would Be, Hearing, Eras

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Stephin Merritt

  Criticism, Say Anything, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Jobs, Thinking, Media

  "The Food Industry's Influence In Nutrition Research". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

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• 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.

  Donna M. Loring

  Luxury, Firsts, Needs

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Guy, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The president can't have a conflict of interest.

  Donald Trump

  President, Conflict, Interest

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• 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.

  Brian Ross

  Golf, Dubai, Luxury

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Doors, Hands

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• 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.

  Kathleen Clark

  Political, Doubt, Voters

  "More Doubts About Frist's Stocks". www.cbsnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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