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I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest. -- Jeff Sessions
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest. -- Chris Christie
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest. -- Andrew Mitchell
A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest. -- Monica Crowley
Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest. -- Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. -- Kofi Annan
Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do. -- Ayub Khan
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest. -- Peter Singer
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. -- Claud Cockburn
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. -- Roger Wicker
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it. -- David Cameron
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. -- Jimmy Breslin
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. -- William Kirby
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances. -- Malcolm Wallop
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. -- Chuck Hagel
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. -- Herbert Croly
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. -- Richard V. Allen
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. -- John Sununu
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. -- Dick Morris
I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. -- Jeff Goodell
And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. -- John Pomfret
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest. -- Jackie Speier
Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine. -- Chuck Schumer
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest. -- Larry Speakes
Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest. -- Doug Bandow
For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest. -- Martin Schulz
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed. -- Theresa May
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. -- Thomas Sowell
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation. -- Paul Kagame
And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National -- George Carlin
You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest. -- Todd Rokita
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest. -- Arsene Wenger
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. -- Dean Acheson
As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States. -- Carlos Curbelo
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest. -- Barbara Jordan
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. -- Alex Berenson
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. -- John McCain
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. -- Evan Bayh
I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States. -- Barack Obama
I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest. -- Nick Xenophon
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States. -- James F. Cooper
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have. -- Bobby Scott
It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. -- Dave Reichert
I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory. -- Margaret Chase Smith
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. -- Edmund Burke
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. -- Elia Kazan
We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest. -- Jahangir Khan
The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest. -- Adolf Hitler
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance. -- Thomas Paine
In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody. -- Dalai Lama
It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia. -- Anthony Albanese
The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest. -- John Allen Fraser
We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted, and in a manner that serves the national interest. -- Donald Trump
Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies. -- Douglas Alexander
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people. -- Joseph Nye
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. -- Winston Churchill
I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest -- Theresa May
when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same. -- John F. Kennedy
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change. -- Colin Powell
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country. -- William III of England
For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest. -- Condoleezza Rice

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