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

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

topic: Attitude, Focus, Prejudice, Biased, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Incentives, Blinded, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Care, Conflict, Interest, Conflict Of Interest

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

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

topic: Ideas, Justice, Needs, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Dream, Air, Years, City Hall, Unethical

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

- Martin Gore

topic: Song, Band, Use, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Government, Self, People, Albany, Conflict Of Interest

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

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Running, President, Would Be, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Iron, Long, Gone, Iron Maiden, Conflict Of Interest

The president can't have a conflict of interest.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.bbc.com

topic: President, Conflict, Interest, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Running, Art, Lying, Conflict Of Interest

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

- Sid Vicious

topic: Today, Conflict, Interest, Conflict Of Interest

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

topic: Business, Men, Views, Personal Desire, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Choices, Would Be, Financial, Conflict Of Interest

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

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Conflict, Conflict Of Interest

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

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

topic: Believe, Government, Political, Insiders, Cabal

Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which cannot be trusted.

- John Gofman

source: John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

topic: Cancer, People, Important, Conflict Of Interest, Databases

I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

- Catherine D. DeAngelis

source: "Medical journals act to limit drug firms' influence", www.cnn.com. September 9, 2001.

topic: Writing, Reality, Data, Pharmaceutical, Clinical Trials

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

source: Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

topic: Directors, Done, Territory, Conflict Of Interest, Sketchy

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he`s been fighting against are gone.

- Chuck Todd

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Fighting, Enemy, President, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Criticism, Say Anything, Records, Conflict Of Interest

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

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

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Media, Conflict Of Interest

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Softball, Team, Play, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Country, Jobs, Sex, Masters And Slaves, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Would Be, Hearing, Eras, Conflict Of Interest, Rudy

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

topic: Believe, Independent, Thinking, Misconduct, Investigating

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

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Golf, Dubai, Luxury, Conflict Of Interest, Business Partners

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

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

topic: Real, Doors, Hands, Conflict Of Interest, Revolving Doors

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

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Thinking, Guy, World, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Luxury, Firsts, Needs, Conflict Of Interest

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

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

topic: Political, Doubt, Voters, Conflict Of Interest, Blind Trust

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

- John Fund

topic: Believe, Careers, Conflict, Conflict Of Interest

The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.

- George Stephanopoulos

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: President, Administration, Conflict, Conflict Of Interest

[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

- Alex Epstein

topic: Writing, Ideas, Voice, Conflict Of Interest, Research And Writing

Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.

- Robert Pozen

source: "An Intermediate Approach to the Auditor Rotation Issue" by Robert Pozen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

topic: Relationship, Desire, Auditors, Rotation, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Emotional, Israel, Attachment, Israeli Occupation, Conflict Of Interest

Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.

- Kenneth Waltz

source: Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press

topic: Mean, Judging, Way, Conflict Of Interest

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

topic: Thinking, Giving, Age, Conflict Of Interest, Blind Trust

Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between intellectuals and manual workers, between the city and the countryside, stratification in the party and society. He said it was necessary to struggle to overcome these differences whether it takes 100 or 500 years.

- Harry Magdoff

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Struggle, Party, Years, Conflict Of Interest

The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

- Roger A. Pielke

topic: Assessment, Decision, Political, Political Agendas, Political Decisions

Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Law, Presidential, Conflict, Conflict Of Interest

I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.

- Katrina vanden Heuvel

topic: Believe, White, America, Emirates, Conflict Of Interest

Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Government, Law, President, Conflict Of Interest

Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Running, Jobs, Perspective, Conflict Of Interest, Full Time Jobs

[Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.

- Norman L. Eisen

topic: Needs, Conflict, Trump, Conflict Of Interest

[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

- Norman L. Eisen

topic: Conflict, Trump, Business Relationship, International Business, Conflict Of Interest

It's even more important for the integrity of the country if there are conflicts of interest in an administration, if there are things being done that they shouldn't do - and I hope there won't be, but if there were, you have to go and prosecute.

- Patrick Leahy

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Conflict Of Interest, Being Done

I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Media, Names, Conflict Of Interest

We learned that President-elect [Donald] Trump intends to keep his executive producer title on Celebrity Apprentice. We know he's going to come out later this week and talk about how he's going to handle the overall conflicts of interests, perhaps, with his businesses in the White House.

- George Stephanopoulos

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: White, House, President, Conflict Of Interest