Been Quote by Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This…

— Charles Koch

The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal…

— Jack Abramoff

America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people…

— John Paul DeJoria

Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.

— Angus Deaton

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

— Jim Hightower

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

— Andrew Cuomo

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

— Joseph Sobran

What I always say with these things, when you're trying to do comprehensive things like tax reform, there will be 20,000 lobbyists in Washington…

— John Yarmuth

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

— James Cook