Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the…

When we're done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have…

— Paul Ryan

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our…

— Jack Abramoff

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going…

— Jay Leno

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did…

— Steven Spielberg

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

— Pat Quinn

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's…

— Ted Cruz

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game…

— Carl Hiaasen

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations…

— Jeff Flake

The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the…

— Barack Obama

“When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.”

— Morgan Carroll

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the…

— Jesse Ventura

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

— Barack Obama

If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws.…

— Russell Simmons