No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.
I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.
In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.
These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
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.
After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.
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.
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is. . . We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.
Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'
To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.
Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right.
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.
We need a total ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
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.
Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That's why the government always listens to them as they tell the government what it's doing wrong and what it should be doing instead.
The President is the peoples lobbyist.
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist. "
