Quotes About Lobbying

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.

After the meeting, RBC conducted a study, never released publicly, in which they found that more than two hundred SEC staffers since 2007 had left their government jobs to work for high-frequency trading firms or the firms that lobbied Washington

For that purpose, partly as the result of Ranieri's persistent lobbying, two new facilities had sprung up in the federal government alongside Ginnie Mae. They guaranteed the mortgages that did not qualify for the Ginnie Mae stamp. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (called Freddie Mac) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (called Fannie Mae) between them, by giving their guarantees, were able to transform most home mortgages into government-backed bonds.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Before the war, James Roosevelt lobbied to get Joe Kennedy appointed to the Court of St. James by his father.

and money was the engine of American politics, especially in the Republican Party.

Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

In the hands of good leaders, such a system can actually perform better than a democratic system that is subject to rule of law and formal democratic procedures like multiparty elections. It can make large, difficult decisions without being hampered by interest groups, lobbying, litigation, or the need to form cumbersome political coalitions or educate the public as to their own self-interest.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

Atta selected early September after determining Congress would be in session. Although bin Laden continued to lobby for the White House as a target, Atta still favored the Capitol, believing it would be easier to strike; the evidence suggests the decision may have remained unresolved until the very end.35

and reduce the influence of political action committees.

During the last days of his governorship, Clinton Tyree had lobbied for a somewhat tougher law. His version would have required anyone who killed a manatee to immediately forfeit his boat (no matter how luxurious) and pay a ten-thousand dollar fine or go to jail for forty-five days. The Tyree Amendment would have also required the manatee killer to bury the dead animal himself, at a public ceremony. Not surprisingly, the governor's proposal was quietly rejected.

No matter how holy and righteous you are, you're still gonna have to kiss up to the billionaire for the check to get yourself elected to change the laws. Even if you're Bernie Sanders.

It's absolutely wrong to see all of these large corporations folding into basically what the Democrats want, and that's kissing the ring.

In politics, money talks—when it must in public, but preferably in private, with hidden handshakes, closed-door meetings and under-the-table kickbacks.

In the United States, private and corporate funding for elections has increased more than twentyfold since 1976, and it topped $2.5 billion during the 2012 Obama–Romney presidential race.49 Since 2005, the fossil-fuel industry alone has spent $1.7 billion in the United States on lobbying and campaign contributions, which explains their entrenched political support.

Business effectively invests in political candidates and expects a return on that investment in the form of favourable policies.

Knock knock!" "Who's there?" the crowd responded. "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions." "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions who?" "That's the thing," Colbert said. "I don't think I should have to tell you.

As a young woman, I was always interested in lobbying. I thought to find a cause you're passionate about, to really work on behalf of that cause, work on lobbying your state legislatures or your federal legislatures, that was of interest to me.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.