Quotes About Lobbying

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

Soda companies spent $30 million to oppose soda taxes in just four states in 2016. They also regularly take legal action21 to oppose warning labels, taxes, and more.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

The easiest way to predict what kinds of "electability" stories you'll see in an election season is to look at the field of candidates and see which ones have a lot of lobbying and ad money behind them. Those candidates will be described as electable. Everyone else will get the "polls say" treatment.

To insure a steady stream of new prisoners, while doing little if anything to boost public safety, private prison companies over the last decade spent over $45 million lobbying law makers.

It's bad enough that most medical schools don't even require a single course on nutrition,58 but it's even worse when mainstream medical organizations actively lobby against increased nutrition education for physicians.59

Campaign donors buy a get out of jail pass... essentially, fraud has been decriminalized.

La financiación de las campañas electorales y las hordas de representantes de los lobbies dan a las grandes corporaciones y a las personas ricas poder suficiente para deformar las reglas a su favor.

The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he's the budget director," said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney's telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have come from someone's recent lobbying or by some burst of free association.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

A US firm with a large "government affairs" division dedicated to lobbying politicians in Washington, a Russian company founded by an oligarch with personal friendships in the Kremlin, and an Indian company finding its way through the tangle of decades-old licensing and bureaucratic requirements face drastically different regulatory environments from one another, let alone from a start-up seeking to enter an industry for the first time.

Los grupos de interés que tienen un solo objetivo (los ecologistas, los antiinmigrantes, etcétera) ya no solo tratan de influir sobre las decisiones de quienes han llegado a gobernar por la vía de los votos sino que, con mucha frecuencia, ellos mismos tratan de obtener esos votos y ser elegidos para cargos de influencia.

toda empresa grande debe tener acceso e influencia con el gobierno, independientemente de quién esté a cargo del mismo.

A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

According to a study by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity, Purdue and other drug companies that manufacture opioid painkillers spent over $700 million between 2006 and 2015 on lobbying in Washington and in all fifty states. The combined spending of these groups amounted to roughly eight times what the gun lobby spent. (By comparison, during the same period, the small handful of groups pushing for limits on opioid prescribing spent $4 million

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.