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… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“In addition to executives, we can also include, for example, certain types of salesmen and lobbyists, for whom constant connection is their… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or… — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support.… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women)… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming.… — Moby Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Don't put all your money on fairness. It scarcely has any lobbyists.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
There are only three ways a congressman goes out: They die in office, they cash in as a lobbyist, or they mistakenly… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building,… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery. — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image