We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake.
The club is comprised of an unelected, self-perpetuating, secretive body comprising people with vested interests.
So who are getting unfair advantage, and, hence, are the vested interests in the current system?
He urged peers to put aside "personal prejudice and vested interests" and support the bill.
Among the main culprits are vested interests, market structure and rigidities in bank ownership.
These people have vested interests - to perpetuate things the way they are, for themselves.
The American political system is clogged up with vested interests that prevent serious change.
The future never has as many lobbyists as the vested interests in the status quo.
Hostility from vested interests would matter less if Mr Yushchenko had a political base.
The solution is to cut graft, tackle vested interests and allow markets to work better.
Both countries have ageing populations, a bloated capital stock, and vested interests opposed to change.
Lobbyists occupy the political front lines of many existing and occasionally newly established vested interests.
The second is whether corrupt vested interests in the state system will let them flourish.
Structural reforms have been repeatedly resisted by vested interests within the Liberal Democratic Party.
Testbiotech emphasises that EFSA and BfR have their own vested interests in this discussion.
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There are vested interests, both organizations with financial power and bureaucrats, who don't want anything to change.
He said his party would stand on a platform of honesty in government free of vested interests.
The future will never have as many lobbyists as the status quo does, as vested interests do.
Some South Koreans fear Mr Kim is unable to stand up to vested interests that oppose reforms.
If Mr Berlusconi's heterogeneous package has a distinguishing characteristic, it is an aversion to confronting vested interests.
But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Even if he were serious about reform, many argued, surely vested interests would blunt his good intentions?
Over a trillion dollars of tax benefits will be doled out this year based on these vested interests.
This has allowed vested interests to pose as populists while obstructing reform of broken economic and political models.
These vested interests always complain, with depressingly predictable outrage, about every change to a system which is failing.
"There are very strong and influential vested interests in keeping this illegal practice going in Punjab, " he said.
Few expect a new coalition to offer much change in a system driven by personalities and vested interests.
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Proposals to keep broadcasting out of the hands of the executive have collided with vested interests in Washington.
But a new census will also anger powerful vested interests which stand to lose from more accurate information.
The member slated to get the economics portfolio is the last-ranked Zhang Gaoli, another defender of vested interests.
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