#lobby

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them. ↗

— Mort Walker

#cartoons #comics #down #emptied #full

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. ↗

— Maxine Waters

#congress #lobby #mayors #provide #resources

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#doing #european #had #i #lobbying

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans. ↗

— John B. Larson

#interests #lobby #older #put #wrong

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#coming #concerned #drive #got #hugely

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media? ↗

— Robert McChesney

#also #any #because #commercial #corporate

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#commitments #fight #government #group #groups

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. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#building #capital #families #forget #halls

I just want to lobby for God. ↗

— Billy Graham

#i #just #lobby #want