Quotes About Lobbying

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

Many years ago, I spent 5k at a fundraiser to hang with another lame duck: Bill Clinton. I lobbied him to pardon Leonard Peltier, the Nelson Mandela of Native Americans.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Outside interests, from labor unions to large corporations, are influencing and distorting our government in the search for favorable policies.

We have focused on the buyers of influence (those outside special interests), but paid little heed to the sellers of influence—bureaucrats and politicians.

Mark Hanna, who served as President William McKinley's chief fund-raiser. (Hanna once famously said, "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.")

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years.

The well-connected lobbying firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly had been counseling him since the previous summer—for a $600,000-a-year contract. "He was meticulously coached on everything from how to answer his critics to how to compliment his patrons," the Washington Post reported.117

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.

Big money and corporate interest drown out a lot of voices.

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

It should be a badge of shame to have an A-rating from the NRA.

Bankers also play politics.

I'm a strong believer in the NRA.

partners in a lobbying firm with a client list that included a great many murderous dictators. Like

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.