The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland Copy Share Image
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the… — John Denver Copy Share Image
People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee. — Mark Neumann Copy Share Image
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
(Howard Dean) is proving that the Internet is a better, cheaper, and faster way to raise money than the old glad-handing of… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“Al Gore told The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, “The influence of special interests is now at an extremely unhealthy level. It’s at… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't… — Leonard Horowitz Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of course, the economy has not been working for most Americans. Yes, of course, we have special interests that are unfortunately doing… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming. — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image