Quotes About Lobbying

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

Charles Schumer (D-N .Y.) Terms: 2 (9 in House) Total raised: $62.2 million Top donors: A major defender of Wall Street interests before the crash, Schumer has netted more big-bank money than any member of Congress who hasn't run for President. Over one-hundred-million dollars was given to Chuck Schumer over the past decade!

We have the best government that money can buy.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.