Quotes About Lobbying

I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.

Award shows come with a price tag. You have to lobby and I don't have the acumen for such stuff. Maybe that's the reason I hardly have any award.

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

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.

Democracy is for those who can buy it.

The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines.

Quite simply, banks are as indebted and fragile as they are only because they want to be and not because of any benefit this brings to society. Nothing that banks do require that they borrow as much as they do or as much as they lobby to be allowed to do.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

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.

How long do we have to keep fighting for affordable prescription drugs?

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go.

Don't allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.