Lobbyists Quotes
66 quotes by 51 authors
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Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were…
— John Boehner
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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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As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of…
— 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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I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other people look at…
— Clive Palmer
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Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme…
— Katha Pollitt
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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
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests;…
— Barack Obama
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It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago…
— Stephen Colbert
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So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes…
— Stephen Colbert
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President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign…
— Dan Rather
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The President is the peoples lobbyist.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.…
— James Hansen
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Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who…
— Ron Paul
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Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.
— Mark Kirk
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Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It…
— Neal Boortz
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Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists…
— Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
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Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do…
— E. J. Dionne
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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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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 the…
— Moby
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