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Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. -- David Frum
God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. -- John Piper
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate. -- Chad Harbach
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. -- Phil Donahue
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. -- Francis Bacon
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. -- Bob Barr
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier. -- Iqbal Quadir
I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't. -- Nigel Lythgoe
To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency. -- Ronald Kessler
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that. -- Sam Harris
The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party. -- Alex Pareene
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone. -- Ian MacKaye
Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well. -- Simon Mainwaring
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. -- E. L. Doctorow
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run. -- Daniel Woodrell
One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team. -- Blake Mycoskie
There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies. -- John Battelle
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. -- E. L. Doctorow
The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can. -- James Mercer
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything. -- Steven Van Zandt
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. -- Harold H. Greene
As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. -- Charlie Crist
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. -- Josh Fox
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001. -- David K. Shipler
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us. -- Oliver Stone
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? -- Jodi Picoult
In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. -- Mary Oliver
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. -- Francis Bacon
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. -- Robert Frost
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form. -- Janine Benyus
They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities. -- Mark Shields
The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder. -- Leopold II of Belgium
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law. -- Patrick Leahy
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions. -- Ben Jonson
The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance. -- Michael Klare
Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line. -- Neil Young
Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar. -- John Darnielle

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