Lobbying Quotes
49 quotes by 40 authors
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up…
— Jack Abramoff
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Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
— Jack Abramoff
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As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous…
— Jack Abramoff
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I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain…
— Jack Abramoff
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I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying…
— Jack Abramoff
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government…
— Ayn Rand
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Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent…
— Prince Charles
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In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity,…
— Richard Lindzen
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The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the…
— Norman Borlaug
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There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in…
— Leo Hindery
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put…
— Stanley Crouch
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I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
— Carter Burwell
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Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
— Marty Meehan
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Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to…
— Wil Wheaton
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Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their…
— Sun Tzu
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Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of…
— Peter Drucker
Who Wrote These Lobbying Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 49 Lobbying Quotes, led by these top contributors: