Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world. — M. Jayachandran 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
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
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
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 got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
It's being reported that Google spent over $5 million on lobbying just during the first quarter of this year. You'd think Google… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
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
“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
Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer… — Thomas Pogge 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
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at… — Cesar Chavez 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
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
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case. — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
