Quotes About Lobbying

Money has much more power down the ballot.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

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

America has the best politicians money can buy.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

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

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.