Special interests Quotes · Page 6

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

— Deepak Chopra

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists…

— Barack Obama

Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

— Tupac Shakur

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger…

— Mitt Romney

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

— Ted Nugent

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

— Mark Shields

Unfortunately, much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New York, Los Angeles in particular, speaks not for the people, but…

— Donald Trump

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time…

— Ken Salazar

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

I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that…

— Bernie Sanders

“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

(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

I might be an endangered species.

— Waylon Jennings

For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that…

— Donald Trump

If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon…

— Al Gore

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I…

— Ray Davies

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in…

— George W. Bush

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority…

— Ai-jen Poo

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

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Ted Cruz

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

— Tom Coburn

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over…

— Arlo Guthrie

Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of…

— George Dantzig