#special interest

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. ↗

— Brian Baird

#bill #cap #complicated #enormously #every

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#belongs #corporate #families #going #government

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#campaign finance #campaign finance reform #finance #grip #interests

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#control #groups #interest #nations #outlaw

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#administration #america #attempted #because #blood

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#again #american #american people #any #anyone

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#big #big oil #companies #energy #energy companies

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#group #i #interest #jewish #journalists