Quotes About Lobbying

Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, Glock and all the rest of the big dogs in the weapons industry, you know, spread around donations and won't let it move through.

Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.

Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Big money is ruining the political system.

Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.