Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Ah, shit. She’s been crying. This is not good. I swear to God, a girl crying is fucking blackmail. It just makes… — J.C. McClean Copy Share Image
“Every love story,every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is,… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“blackmail never ended. it only bought time. but time was in limited supply. it would last only as long as his money… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The vile blackmail by a band of criminal kidnappers must not be given the dignity of a political response. Italy is and… — Francesco Rutelli Copy Share Image
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
They refuse to pay blackmail to the county. Development rights are just what kneecaps are to the rest of us. — Bruce Baird Copy Share Image
It sucks when you try to blackmail someone & it doesn't work. 'If you do this ever, I'm never going to talk… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it's coming from a younger sister.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Either help me, or go with me right now to explain to my sister and mother that I will be leaving again… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Maroon wanted to blackmail Acme. I didn't want to have anything to do with it, but he said that if I didn't… — Jessica Rabbit Copy Share Image
Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
“Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
When I lost everting I had then life started dlacking maling me wanna live or die..? But I still never gave up… — Kevin D'cruz Copy Share Image
There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb… — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
What's going on?" Kynan asked Luc smiled, which was little more than a baring of his teeth. "She's a warg. She knows… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“Jordana is in the umpire's highchair. I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I blinked and wiped my hand over my face. My fingers came back damp. I glanced across the room and saw my… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Will:"You know, when two people narrowly escape falling to their deaths, they usually have something to talk about, Even if they hadn't… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs. — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
“Kushirikiana na maadui wa nchi yetu ni hatia ya kosa la uhaini. Adhabu yake ni kifo, au kifungo cha maisha.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“She had hair the colour of' blackmail, a spine as straight as a guillotine, and a face that could sink ships.” — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
“Hello, Mrs. Tran...I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image