Quotes About Lobbying

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

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

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid lobbyists whose opinions are for hire and the fear that decision-makers, whether politicians or officials, are susceptible to their charms and wiles. This has tarred entirely proper lobbying with the same brush.

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

It was in the last-minute effort to halt Tidewater that Standard Oil first resorted to the wholesale bribery of state legislators.

It is the job of governments to resist entrepreneurs' lobbying until basic developmental objectives have been achieved.

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

Modern politics is expensive—power follows money.)

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

I did not reach out to the Pruitt E.P.A. at all. I did not lobby them. That was purposeful.