Call me old fashioned, but I like hearing viewers' real thoughts, not the ones special interest groups pay them to tweet. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that the founding fathers intended for a fourth branch of government to emerge — that of special interest groups.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee. — Mark Neumann Copy Share Image
I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“corporate special interest groups rely heavily on one strategy: divide and conquer. We win when more people participate and when we unite… — David Akadjian Copy Share Image
What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation.… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
“Reciprocal altruism, meanwhile, is rampant in Washington and is the primary channel through which interest groups have succeeded in corrupting government. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“So what good is to be found in today’s metropolitan areas, amidst all the alienation, the anonymity, and the lack of cohesiveness… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Here is one final reason to think that the United States may be a state that uses the language of democracy to… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) 'to remember waht got us this far and how we got here -- moral indignation,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups.… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because… — Calvin Jillson Copy Share Image
But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“James Madison made clear in Federalist 51 that that this elaborate structure—today often derided as “ gridlock ”—was created to protect individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
