Conflict Interest Quotes

Don’t ever ask a barber if you need a haircut.

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Newspapers should have no friends.

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

There is a steady flow between corporate board rooms and government decision making centers.

Even if Koch Industries had a financial interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, what possibly could be wrong with that? Perhaps more important, under what circumstances would such an interest be worthy of a congressional inquisition?

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

The Congressional Ethics Committees are the brothers and sisters of member of Congress and no one wants to investigate their brothers and sisters.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

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

I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.

There's no way you can depend on the Attorney General of the United States to investigate high government officials.

President Trump is taking foreign money through his businesses, which is in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.