Lobbyists Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

  Katha Pollitt

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library

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• After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

  Harris L Coulter

  Baby, Eggs, Vaccines

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• We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Welfare Programs, Long

  Speech in the House of Representatives, September 17, 1997.

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• Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.

  Jack Abramoff

  Issues, Office, Support

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