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Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.