I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

My belief is that the nation-state remains the one entity that can function, the one entity that can demand sacrifice from its constituents in the national interest.

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.