Around Quote by Bob Beckel

The Congress has made it clear that it has an alliance with the DMK, and it did face the elections with the DMK. And…

— J. Jayalalithaa

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

— Bob Beckel

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States…

— Haley Barbour

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's…

— Ted Cruz

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going…

— Jay Leno

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

— Moby

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our…

— Jack Abramoff

“When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.”

— Morgan Carroll

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

— Barack Obama

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations…

— Jeff Flake

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game…

— Carl Hiaasen