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Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.
The President is the peoples lobbyist.
Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.
Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.
Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.
The average American doesnt realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.
Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.
In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.
The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.
The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.
In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.
I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.
The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
Reporters at the New York Times, they're not journalists, they're corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton.
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.
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.
Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
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.
The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.
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.
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.
Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.
If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.
When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.