Top 25 Vested Interests Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Vested Interests Quotes from famous people such as Owen Jones, Ben Elton, Paul Craig Roberts, Shriya Saran, Sharan Burrow, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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In the neoliberal era, rolling back the state has in practice meant withdrawing state support and social security for the majority, but continuing vast subsidies for vested interests.
Owen Jones
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Ben Elton
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.
Paul Craig Roberts
Certain people with vested interests have unleashed a campaign that I’m charging Rs 1 crore as my salary. This is totally false. Even at the best of times, I haven’t got that much money for any of my films.
Shriya Saran
If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises.
Sharan Burrow
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will – with the journals they control – resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
Randal Cremer
It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.
Liz Truss
Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests.
Sharan Burrow
Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don’t like it.
Manmohan Singh
I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interests because you go through the emotional ups and downs.
Ashton Eaton
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Garrett Hardin
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.
Steve Hilton
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.
Jasper Carrott
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests.
Li Keqiang
There is nothing efficient about destroying the planet as we know it because vested interests want to keep us addicted to fossil fuels.
Clive Lewis
Reforms aimed at increasing an economy’s flexibility are always hard – and even more so at a time of weak growth – because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.
Michael Spence
When you scale up your business there will invariably be small groups of vested interests unwilling to see the new ground reality.
Ritesh Agarwal
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.
Terry Sanford
Let me assure you that New Democrats will support a bold agenda to tackle inequality, even though it is certain to encounter strong opposition from vested interests.
Jagmeet Singh
Challenging vested interests requires a government’s full commitment.
Mo Ibrahim
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.
Richard Dawkins
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world’s foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.
Ash Sarkar
We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information.
Sharan Burrow