self-interested

In truth, most people's politics are self-interested, which is precisely what defines the two main parties' "core vote".

Miliband states the politically obvious | Deborah Orr 2011

When asked by a university researcher in the early 1930s why they serviced customers of other races, a white prostitute and a black prostitute gave similarly self-interested answers.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Thanks to the generous support of billionaires and self-interested corporations, think tanks have seeded our political discourse with a lot of mistaken ideas about government spending and deficits.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011

New Jersey's Republican governor Chris Christie is attempting the same, telling a conservative conference Wednesday, "I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested."

Robert Reich: The Republican Strategy Robert Reich 2011

Thanks to the generous support of billionaires and self-interested corporations, think tanks have seeded our political discourse with a lot of mistaken ideas about government spending and deficits.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011

Capping off the trend was a Supreme Court decision last year disarming the "honest services" blunderbuss, which threatened to turn any self-interested behavior by a CEO into a crime.

Angelo Mozilo's Story Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

He remained blocked at every step by the familiar coalition of opponents—the opposition majority in the new Duma, defiant governors, hostile bureaucrats, and self-interested business elites.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The solutions will come when we stop demonizing the teaching profession as a monolith of self-interested adults who don't care about children.

Sam Chaltain: In Wisconsin, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Sam Chaltain 2011

As the late Amos Elon put it in The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933, “The history of Jewish assimilation, not only in Germany, has long been a subversive subject, which the assimilated have suppressed so as not to draw attention to themselves, and the Zionists, for equally self-interested reasons, have distorted.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The solutions will come when we stop demonizing the teaching profession as a monolith of self-interested adults who don't care about children.

Sam Chaltain: In Wisconsin, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right Sam Chaltain 2011