Quotes About Interests

I just never had time to follow sports. When you're working as often as I was, eight shows a week, you just don't have time to develop interests outside of the theatre.

I love playing poker, reading, and painting.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I will not accept that a Lebanese political party participates in maneuvers that serve the interests of Iran.

We need a new generation of leaders who can put their country over their political party to do what's right for Kentucky and are not bought off by special interests.

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Everything is politics.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

As we look at China, there is no doubt that it poses the most significant challenge of any nation state to the United States, in terms of our interests the interest of the American people.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

There aren't too many women out there who talk about cars. So that one person who I talk the most to about cars is my husband. It constitutes about 90 per cent of our conversations.

I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.

Corporations, like nations, do not have friends. They have interests.

Belief systems have flourished because they have facilitated the interests of the creatures involved.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.