#lobby

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#broadcasters #campaign #campaign finance #campaign finance reform #finance

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#best #best interests #corporate #ears #eyes

To succeed in retail, you have to love it. The process of bringing items in, displaying them attractively, and seeing them miraculously change into actual cash in the drawer has to get your blood racing. ↗

— David Green

#success #world-changer #change

Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.
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— Jarod Kintz

#lobbyists #politicians #politics #society #change

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ↗

— Barry M. Goldwater

#compromise #god #lobbying #politics #preachers

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#being #chair #communists #courtroom #full

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#cries #government #lobbyists #often #people

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#because #dirty #electricity #lobbyists #money

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#corporate #counting #income #lawyer #like

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#because #black #come #get #groups