Lobbyists Quotes - Page 5

• Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

  Barack Obama

  Influence, Access

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• There are only three ways a congressman goes out: They die in office, they cash in as a lobbyist, or they mistakenly tweet a picture of their d*ck.

  Bill Maher

  Office, Three, Cash

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• What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Government, Political Revolution

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• If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

  Newt Gingrich

  Horse, Government, Would Be

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• While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too often, seekers after subsidies, contracts, privileges, or cartels furnished by big government. Often, business lobbyists and leaders are the sparkplugs for the statist, interventionist system.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Leader, Subsidies

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.

  Joel Achenbach

  Subsidies, Facts, Negative

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• Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

  Hal Holbrook

  Government, Salary, Bills

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

  Erin McKeown

  Independent, People, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That's why the government always listens to them as they tell the government what it's doing wrong and what it should be doing instead.

  Gail Collins

  Government, Talking, Experts

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.

  Donald Trump

  House, Guy, President

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Thinking, Special

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I've never seen Barack Obama as a progressive, just someone a bit more centrist, and not as right leaning as Hillary Clinton. Obama may make friends with a lot of K street lobbyists. The progressive blogosphere may be able to raise enough of a cry to persuade him that he doesn't need them, that he can get by with a few million people on the net financially supporting him.

  Rob Kall

  People, Needs, May

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• [Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

  Ella Baker

  White, Walter White, Periods

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people.

  Donald Trump

  People, Office, Immigration

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Opposites, Want, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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