Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
It's hard to make a clear line between what is political business and what is state business.
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
A government that doesn't work is in no one's interest.
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Business is other people's money.