Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.