Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Topics
Authors
Professions
Quote of The Day
Picture Quotes
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Quotes by Lobbyist of the Authors - Page 2
Menu
Grid View
List View
Quote of the Day
Picture Quotes
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes
Top 100 Love Quotes
Top 100 Happiness Quotes
Popular Authors
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Hill
Bob Marley
Vince Lombardi
Rodney Dangerfield
Thomas Sowell
Heraclitus
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Popular Topics
Education
Health
Memorial Day
Politics
Sympathy
Knowledge
I Love You
God
Food
Computers
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Effort
Context
Copy Quote
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.
Richard Baker
/
Lobbyist
Hateful
Hurricanes
New Orleans
Copy Quote
The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Missions
New Life
Want
Life God Me
Mission
Copy Quote
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Appropriate
Public Speaking
Support
Trying
Venture
Speaking
Ventures
Copy Quote
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
American Film
Boston
Vcr
American Public
Producer
Copy Quote
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Discreet
Edginess
Edgy
Nerves
Understanding
Raw
Showing
Copy Quote
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
New Orleans
Venice
Years
Italy
Orleans
Survive
Copy Quote
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Power
Home
America
Parent
Programming
Copy Quote
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Fewer
Hollywood
Knives
People
Copy Quote
Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Both Sides
Elites
Games
Sides
Thinking
Copy Quote
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Government
Anarchist
Libertarian
Roles
Rules And Regulations
Complete
Proper
Regulations
Copy Quote
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Almighty
Forgive Me
Forgiving
Wronged
Hope I Am Me
Hope Me I Am
Forgive
Profoundly
Whom
Copy Quote
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Campaigns
Presidential
Trying
Avoid
Campaign
Candidate
Copy Quote
It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Censorship
Firsts
Simple
Copy Quote
I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Capable
Findings
Knows
Millions
Series
Carefully
Finding
Hundreds
Intellectually
Legally
Copy Quote
I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Trust
Connections
Lost
Thinking
American Public
Connection
Finally
Rebuild
Copy Quote
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Harm
Im Sorry
Mistake
Profound
Regret
Sorrow
Caused
Mistakes
Express
Multitude
Copy Quote
Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Anti Semitism
Criticism
View People Will
Jews
Prism
Reaction
Copy Quote
This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Assets
Cash
Circumstances
Concerned
Protection
Tribes
Cow
List
Tribal
Copy Quote
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
/
Lobbyist
Legal
Cartoon
Framework
Lobbying
Moral
Philosophical
Villain
Legal Framework
Copy Quote
Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Aging
China
Chinese
Cinema
Consumers
Demand
Infrastructure
Attract
Capital
Modernize
Copy Quote
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Richard Baker
/
Lobbyist
Beauty
Fathom
Full Moon
Impossible
Insomnia
Magnificence
Moon
People
Sunrise
Universe
Full
Often
Marvel
Surrounds
Copy Quote
In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Facts
Thinking
Trying
Philosophically
Copy Quote
I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Beneficial
Avail
Cleaned
Technologies
Copy Quote
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Government
Association
Federal Government
Organization
Staff
Barred
Chose
Congressional
Copy Quote
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Humble
Interim
New Orleans
Population
Water
Businesses
Channel
Highest Priority
Humble Opinion
Immediate
Orleans
Quickly
Copy Quote
In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Giants
Hollywood
Voice
Copy Quote
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Television
Thinking
Unfair
Copy Quote
I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Movie
Actors
Adults
Father
Copy Quote
Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Levels
Perfect
Religious
Anybody Else
Copy Quote
The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Congress
Disaster
Timing
Handled
Helped
Pictures
Copy Quote
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Republican
Want
Way
Corrupt
Democrats
Republicans
Forced
Ignore
React
Copy Quote
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Canals
Dutch
Redundant
Water
Drown
Incoming
Systems
Copy Quote
I think what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Philosophy
Thinking
Trying
Copy Quote
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Children
Gone
Suffering
Torn
Agent
Causing
Immensely
Suffer
Copy Quote
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Government
Honorable
Lobbying
Lobbyists
Trying
Good Government Bad
Bad Thing
Petition
Copy Quote
I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Kids
Home
School
Copy Quote
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Clients
Effort
Generous
Lobbying
Lobbyists
Members
Saved
Contributions
Efforts
Lobbyist
Pro
Quid
Quo
Reward
Substantial
Sums
Copy Quote
In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Men
Hurt
Past
Copy Quote
New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Country
Critical
New Orleans
Rebuilding
Water
Master
Master Plan
Orleans
Send
Signal
Copy Quote
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Citizens
Contemplating
Levees
New Orleans
Rebuilding
Secure
Thinking
Held
Intent
Orleans
Regardless
Shape
Copy Quote
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Sympathy
Crisis
Fashion
Grasping
Identifying
Lost
One Time
Priorities
Support
Thinking
Too Much
Time Great Lost
Appeared
Deal
Handled
Importantly
Instead
Copy Quote
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Morning
Night
Sleep
Copy Quote
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
/
Lobbyist
Office
People
Term
Years
Congressional
Lobbyist
Copy Quote
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
Billy Tauzin
/
Lobbyist
Cities
Including
Louisiana
New Orleans
Prize
Safe
Water
Brightest
Codes
Compete
Forth
Grand
Invite
Orleans
Pick
Zoning
Copy Quote
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
Jack Valenti
/
Lobbyist
Quality
Doe
Use
Copy Quote
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
Richard Baker
/
Lobbyist
Joy
Stars
Brief
Distant
Gently
Passage
Copy Quote
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
/
Lobbyist
Issues
Office
Support
Copy Quote
The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.
Jack Abramoff
/
Lobbyist
Abuse
Federal Government
Lobbyists
Special Interests
Government Will More
Creates
Expense
Interests
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Copy Quote
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
/
Lobbyist
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Firm
Law
Phones
Senate
Years
Barred
Buddies
Phone
Jack
Law Firm
Lobby
Partner
Copy Quote
‹ Prev
1
2
3
Next ›
Stay Connected
facebook
twitter
pinterest
instragram
Picture Quotes Maker
Make Your Picture Quotes, Download and Share
Popular Topic Tags
Freedom
History
Marriage
7th Heaven
Beauty
Wise
Running
Using People
Quilts
Truth
Independence
Appreciation
Teacher
Learning
Motivational
Government
Thanksgiving
Break Up
Orchids
Mother's Day
Share This Page