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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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• There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

  Leo Hindery

  Mcdonalds, Lows, Interest

  "Former CEO: There Is No One Representing Low-Wage Workers". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.

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• We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Needs, Lifetime

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Writing, Media, Age

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

  Norman Borlaug

  Home, Years, Office

  Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

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• In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.

  Richard Lindzen

  Government, Special, Roles

  "Climate Science: Is it Currently Designed to Answer Questions?" by Richard Lindzen, www.globalresearch.ca. September 22, 2014.

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• While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Forgiveness, Humorous

  Jim Norton (2008). “I Hate Your Guts”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

  James Frey

  Air, Cities, Pollution Control

  James Frey (2008). “Bright Shiny Morning”, p.292, Hachette UK

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• To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Years, White

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Taken, America, Use

  "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.

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• Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer because they can influence rulemaking and rule application in their favor; on the other hand, it also leads to instability. This is so because the relatively few organizations capable of influencing supranational rulemaking through the lobbying of major governments have diverse interests. This will, in some cases, lead to compromises. But it will also lead to spheres of influence.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Hands, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit lobbying, we are in effect limiting free speech.

  Philip Kotler

  Trying, Speech, Limits

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Running, Country, Home

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think if you do term limits, you would really increase the power of lobbying.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Term Limits, Increase

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Government, Lobbyists

  "Management".

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• Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Law, People

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• It's being reported that Google spent over $5 million on lobbying just during the first quarter of this year. You'd think Google wouldn't really need to lobby politicians. All they have to say is, 'We have your search history. Do what we tell you.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Years, Google

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• Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Men, Medical

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• I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with federations, convinced the IOC. We got the women's marathon in the Olympic Games in 1984. That was my dream.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Dream, Race, Data

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Law, Rights, Trying

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary citizens often learn of important global institutional design decisions only after they have already been finalized and adopted. The only reliable way to be kept informed and to exert timely influence is by lobbying and paying the politicians and their negotiators.

  Thomas Pogge

  Agreement, Organization, Design

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

  Prince Charles

  Encouragement, Business, Power

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