Quotes About Lobbying

Twenty-one of the corporations whose CEOs signed the statement paid no federal income taxes in 2018, courtesy of those lobbying efforts. One of the signers was Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire CEO of Amazon and of its Whole Foods subsidiary. Just weeks after the statement appeared, Whole Foods announced it would be cutting medical benefits for its entire part-time workforce—at a total annual savings of what Bezos himself made in two hours.

protect biodiversity. It has used its political muscle in Washington to fight moves in other nations to ban

How many billionaires and big corporations does it take to buy the presidency and Congress? We would soon find out—although we would not know many of their names.

In 2013, Apple spent $3,370,000 on lobbying; Amazon, $3,456,000; Facebook, $6,430,000; Microsoft, $10,490,000; and Google, $15,800,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The threat to America is not coming from peaceful demonstrators. And it's not coming from a government that's too large. It's coming from unprecedented amounts of money now inundating our democracy, mostly from big corporations and a handful of the super-rich.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.

It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . .

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America Ã¢â'¬â€œ rich, materialist, and secular Ã¢â'¬â€œ whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

Just politics in general is a disgusting thing.

Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.

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

When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.

They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes.