Self-serving Quotes

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.