Lobbyists Quotes - Page 4

• ...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through its network of 58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major public campaign is aimed at reducing smoking and cancers related to it. Yet...the ACS has but a single (lobbyist) in Washington DC. The industry-supported Tobacco Institute, on the other hand, has a ten million dollar budget which supports dozens of Washington staff.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Cancer, Dark, Hands

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• The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.

  Mark Shields

  Real, Doe, Pay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Oil, Nuclear

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• For me, the overarching issue here is that we need regulatory agencies that are standing up for us, that do not have a revolving door between, you know, Monsanto, and then suddenly Monsanto lobbyists are in charge of, you know, telling us whether GMOs are, you know, good for our food or not.

  Jill Stein

  Agency, Doors, Gmos

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Doors, Hands

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Two, Pockets, Auctions

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• The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Republican, Donors

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Exercise, People

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• Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

  Jessica Chastain

  Pushing, Males, Agendas

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

  Donald Trump

  Needs, Election, Raising Money

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social Security. But then we started talking about this whole email stuff again. And now the outcome is that, you know, Donald Trump has somebody who he's looking at to put on his Cabinet who's a lobbyist to privatize Social Security.

  Keith Ellison

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

  Tim Kaine

  Class, Forever, Term Limits

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, People, Influence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform.

  Roger Stone

  People, Special, Reform

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?

  Jack Abramoff

  Years, People, Office

  "Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 4, 2012.

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• Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Issues, Giving

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• I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or still worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Government, People

  Donald Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, abcnews.go.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Slim, Clinton

  "Stirewalt: Press doesn't need conspiracy to take down Trump". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

  Donald Trump

  Media, America, Political

  Source: time.com

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• Pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs. America is the largest buyer of drugs in the world and yet we don't bid properly and we're going to start bidding and we're going to save billions of dollars over a period of time.

  Donald Trump

  America, Drug, Bidding

  "Transcript of President-elect Trump's news conference" by Natalia Wojcik, www.cnbc.com. January 11, 2017.

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• I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America, Shut Up

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• OPEC has got a monopoly. If you try and get a lobbyist in Washington to go against OPEC, they'll say, 'Oh, this is great. Donald Trump wants me to be a lobbyist,' and then they'll go check and say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Trump, we can't represent you. We represent OPEC or one of the 12 nations.'

  Donald Trump

  Sorry, Trying, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

  Mark Kirk

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Achievement

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• The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for.

  Jay Leno

  Softball, Team, Marijuana

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