Dianne Feinstein Quotes

Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters, even that of disinterestedness

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

Demagoguery from the pulpit is no different from demagoguery on the campaign trail. If anything, it is worse, because it clothes itself in self-righteousness.

Everybody has an agenda.

We corrupt the word of truth, and mix ... our doctrine with what is common and cheap... in order to turn the adulteration to our profit, and accommodate ourselves to those who meet us, and curry favor with everyone, becoming ventriloquists and chatterers, who serve their own pleasures by words uttered from the earth, and sinking into the earth, and, to gain the special good will of the multitude

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.