Conflict Quotes - Page 27

• Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

  Chris Cleave

  Unique, Principles, Fingerprints

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.

  E. J. Dionne

  Running, Kids, Example

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the financial issues in a business are huge.

  Robert Irvine

  Children, Divorce, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opposites, Two, Errors

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• [Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.

  Chuck Todd

  Enemy, Empires, Serious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald] Trump`s business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

  Chuck Todd

  Transition, Enough, Come Up

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

  Chuck Todd

  Needs, Ignored, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he`s creating new ones. There`s no precedent for it.

  Chuck Todd

  Creating, Bigs, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

  Chuck Todd

  New York, Law, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.

  Mara Liasson

  Records, Want, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you're looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Guy, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Iran, Support, Allies

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.

  Donald Trump

  Common, Partnership, Deals

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• When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.

  Tara Brach

  Attention, Body, Blame

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We learned that President-elect [Donald] Trump intends to keep his executive producer title on Celebrity Apprentice. We know he's going to come out later this week and talk about how he's going to handle the overall conflicts of interests, perhaps, with his businesses in the White House.

  George Stephanopoulos

  White, House, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].

  George Stephanopoulos

  Nbc, Fcc, Raises Questions

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think when people voted for Donald Trump, they realized he owned a lot of stuff with his name on it. I think the concern over conflict of interest seems to be higher in the media than the public. People saying, oh, he has to sell all of his stuff.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Media, Names

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• For Donald Trump's business partners around the world, including the developers of this luxury golf course in Dubai, what some in the U.S. may see as a conflict of interest is, for them, money in the bank.

  Brian Ross

  Golf, Dubai, Luxury

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Trump, Business Relationship, Interest

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Donald Trump] has moved to admit that there is a conflict of interest now and he needs to do something.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Needs, Trump, Interest

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's going to be a lot of remedies. [Donald Trump] is also subject to other conflicts laws.The bribery laws are intended to prevent conflicts, for example. He's subject to criminal law. He's subject to civil law. He's going to be subject to litigation. He's already in a lot of cases. This is going to come up in existing litigation and there's going to be new litigation.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Law, Criminals, Example

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• With the new Russia allegations coming to the fore once again, the conclusion of the intelligence agencies, we've got to have those [Donald Trump's] taxes to evaluate whether these conflicts go to the heart of our most pressing national security interests.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Heart, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Play, Defining

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• [A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists.
  [The Iranians] actually what they are doing is the opposite. They tried to open channels with the Saudi, with many other Islamic entities in the region in order to talk about Islamic society, not Sunni and Shi'ite societies.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Islamic, Order, Opposites

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.

  Richard Dawkins

  Able, Answers, World

  Source: inters.org

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