Lobbyists Quote by Cal Newport

When we're done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have…

— Paul Ryan

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

— Barack Obama

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the…

— Jesse Ventura

“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

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

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

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did…

— Steven Spielberg

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

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

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

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

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 drug laws.…

— Russell Simmons