Jay Inslee Quotes

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

When it comes to listening to my constituents or to the governor's staff, who are more interested in their pet projects and their government cars, I'll vote for my constituents every time.

What, then, unites nations? Interest and sentiment.

We did not send them [Senators] here to vote their conscience; we sent them here to vote the will of their constituents.

I think people cast their votes for a number of reasons. I think if you look at your polls, you'll probably find that many, many people think that our views are closer to what they believe the future of America should be. That our views are closer on economic issues. And a lot of those polls come down to demographics, to age, to how much money you are making.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people. People who have freaked out as Trump points the blame on Mexicans when you have what you have in Europe. He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him. You have to remember that there are still 7 out of 10 people in this country who don't think his ideas are good ideas. I am not afraid of Trump; I am more afraid of the people that think his ideas are good.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'