Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One is only susceptible to lobbying if they're weak and they trust what an individual tells them without verification. — Richard Burr Copy Share Image
I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
The groups who spend the most on lobbying lawmakers in Washington are well-known: ExxonMobil, Boeing, AT&T, General Electric. — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn't start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington… — Leo Hindery Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money… — Tim Worstall Copy Share Image
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Every party conference season, I'm struck by how much is spent on lobbying by the public affairs industry. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that… — Taufik Hidayat Copy Share Image
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
