Lobbying Quotes

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Views, Effort

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• Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

  Bill Press

  World, Superstitions, Profession

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• Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Government, Pressure Groups

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Live Life, Power, People

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• The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Writing, Perfect, Next

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lobbyists, Pressure, Okay

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• Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

  Marty Meehan

  Real, Writing, Law

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• After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, Campaigns

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• Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.

  Sun Tzu

  Land, Lobbyists, Use

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.167, Shambhala Publications

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• I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

  Carter Burwell

  Projects, Filmmaker

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• I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

  Bianca Jagger

  Believe, Views, Want

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• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Years, Culture

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

  Careers, Community, Guy

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.

  Neil Young

  Running, People, Office

  "Neil Young permits Trump to Keep on Rockin'", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2016.

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• Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

  Jack Abramoff

  Doors, Cases, Access

  "Jack Abramoff On Lobbying", www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.

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• Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

  Stanley Crouch

  Business, Dollars, Lines

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• You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

  Jamie Dimon

  Looks, Way, Inappropriate

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• I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

  Jack Abramoff

  Philosophical, Cartoon, Moral

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• When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

  Tim Worstall

  Jobs, People, Spending

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• A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'

  Jack Abramoff

  Phones, Years, Law

  "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 4, 2012.

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• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Lobbyists, Purpose

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• Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Giving Up, Mps, Law

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.

  Wil Wheaton

  Block, Thinking, Law

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.

  Michael Scheuer

  Powerful, Support, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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