Conflict Of Interest Quotes

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

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.

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.

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.

If I, taking care of everyone’s interests, also take care of my own, you can’t talk about a 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.