Quotes by Lobbyists The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay. Mark Shields lobbyists real doe 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. Mark Shields subsidies lobbyists pay 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 lobbyists horse government 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 lobbyists opposites want When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have a simple system, most Americans will be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard. Paul Ryan lobbyists simple people 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 lobbyists government responsibility 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 lobbyists oil thinking 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 lobbyists people needs 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 lobbyists special people These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. Ron Suskind lobbyists human-beings humans Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government... Ron Paul lobbyists government military The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are. Rush Limbaugh lobbyists republican party Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve. Sibel Edmonds lobbyists pockets two Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal. Steven Spielberg lobbyists desperate-measures noble Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground. Sun Tzu lobbying lobbyists land There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration. Thomas Frank lobbyists portraits depressing 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 lobbyists forever class Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries. Winston Churchill lobbyists protected industry Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business. Christopher Buckley spaceship lobbyists business way «123