Quotes About Conflict Of Interest

#1. 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.

Rita Mae Brown

#2. 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

#3. MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.

Bill Dedman

#4. What you call conflict of interest, I call synergy.

Nathan Hill

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

Martin Gore

#6. It's a conflict of interest and we both know it. I'm putting your ass on the line with this." "Sorry to disagree, sir, but I'm in charge of my own ass. It's only on the line if I put it there." "So noted and appreciated.

J.D. Robb

#7. Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

Kenneth Eade

#8. Garrett ran a hand through his hair. "How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn't that a conflict of interest?"
"You expect me to stake myself?" Sean growled.
"I've got a nice, big one you can borrow," Gregori suggested.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#9. Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river.

Gore Vidal

#10. 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

#11. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Harsha Bhogle

#12. Today everything's a conflict of interest.

Sid Vicious

#13. 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.

Miles Teller

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

Jurgen Moltmann

#15. 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

#16. I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

Rand Paul

#17. 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

#18. Conflict of interest. I wanted to date somebody who was less screwed up than me, and she wasn't.

Jason Krumbine

#19. It is the way of the jungle, kid. Unlike us, they do not have masters to feed them. They hunt other animals to feed themselves. I don't consider them my enemy. But we have a conflict of interest, because it is my job to protect my master's flock.

Jofelyn Martinez Khapra

#20. 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

#21. However, family and friends can be in a financial or emotional conflict of interest with the welfare of an incompetent patient.

Edmund D. Pellegrino

#22. I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

John Fund

#23. I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.

Mohith Agadi

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Cynthia McKinney

#26. In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest.

Ryan Holiday

#27. 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

#28. 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.

Mark Zuckerberg

#29. 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

#30. Frowning, Garrett ran a hand through his hair. "How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn't that a conflict of interest?"
"You expect me to stake myself?" Sean growled.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#31. I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Bill Maris

#32. 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.

Mitt Romney

#33. You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

William Kirby

#34. At a certain level of learning and understanding,
right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.

Toba Beta

#35. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.

Garth Stein

#36. Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

Juan Cole

#37. 90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ladies and gentlemen can always come to an agreement.

Stefan Emunds

#38. The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

Peter Drucker

#39. Ironically, most leaders of meetings go out of their way to eliminate or minimize drama and avoid the healthy conflict that results from it. Which only drains the interest of employees.

Patrick Lencioni

#40. Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Peter Singer

#41. 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

#42. Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, any claimed or implied conflict of 'the public interest' with private intersts means that the interests of some men are to be sacrificed to the interest and wishes of others.

Ayn Rand

#43. doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

Geoffrey Chaucer

#44. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.

John Fowles

#45. Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

Suzy Kassem

#46. As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.

Robert Shea

#47. Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

Aristotle.

#48. Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Frank Knight

#49. Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William McKinley

#50. Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Romeo Dallaire

#51. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Ron Paul