Loretta Lynch Quotes

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

Aging leaders have put their own survival ahead of their reason for being and above that of the institution they serve.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

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

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

No one expresses very great faith in the unselfishness of human being and everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that we must count on a certain amount of greed and willingness on the part of some human beings to prey upon others.

Sir, I here enter my solemn protest against a low and calculating avarice entering this hall of legislation. It is only fit for shops and counting houses.

Too many leaders in … countries turned out to be more interested in using their freedom to loot rather than liberate.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

.... the forces of greed

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.