After Quote by Gail Collins

When you're elected to congress, they tell you that you're going to spend 4-hours a day talking to rich people to get more money…

— Jimmy Dore

Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if…

— Hal Holbrook

Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That's why the government always listens to them as they…

— Gail Collins

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

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies…

— Matt Taibbi

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they…

— Will Rogers

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has…

— Mark Shields

“In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998…

— Lawrence Lessig

Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

— Jason Kander

The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give…

— Bill Gates

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative…

— Neil Young