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
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. — Tom Daschle 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
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
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
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the… — Marty Meehan 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
The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its… — Joseph Stalin 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
I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread… — John French Sloan 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
War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not… — Shirley Chisholm 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
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
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one. — Don Henley 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
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
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
Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in… — Michael Jackson 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
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see… — Luis Gutierrez 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
Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image