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You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. ↗

— William Hague

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The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

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When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. ↗

— Albert Shanker

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The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin. ↗

— Mark Shields

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The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. ↗

— John Sununu

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank. ↗

— Chris Matthews

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