We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he… — Dan Rather 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
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict.… — E. J. Dionne 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
The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
OPEC has got a monopoly. If you try and get a lobbyist in Washington to go against OPEC, they'll say, 'Oh, this… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, the overarching issue here is that we need regulatory agencies that are standing up for us, that do not have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
Donald Trump represents not the lobbyists, not the elected officials, not the establishment types. These are people that have nothing to do… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
