Lobbyists Quotes · Page 2

Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

— Bob Beckel

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

— Jesse Ventura

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

— Duncan Green

There is the old boys' club, but there are ­people who are "conviction lobbyists" coming from the heart.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

— Jay Leno

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.

— Pat Quinn

“In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”

— Suzy Kassem

“I wish all the lobbyists on K Street would drown in alphabet soup.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the…

— Ted Cruz

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

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

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in…

— Anonymous

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like…

— Bob Beckel

Instead of like giving into lobbyists or agendas, I just like do whatever's good for the American people. It sounds like it…

— MrBeast

Lobbyists and special interests continue to take advantage of loopholes that allow them to host lavish receptions and pay for trips for…

— Sara Gideon

As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I…

— Jack Abramoff

I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the…

— Ted Cruz

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

Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys network in Washington.'…

— Barack Obama

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming.…

— Moby

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund,…

— Donald Trump

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have…

— Paul Broun

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women)…

— Katha Pollitt

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

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

— Dan Bongino

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

— Patricia Schroeder

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

— Marty Meehan

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

— Peter Hitchens

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

— Rose McGowan

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

— Anonymous

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

— Ron Suskind

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

— Sam Wyly

We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

— Donald Trump

Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

— Donald Trump

The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.

— Rush Limbaugh

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or…

— Kam Williams

Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury…

— Senator John Kerry

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist.…

— Donald Trump

The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been…

— Barack Obama