Zack Space Quotes

I was proud to represent the 11th District of Georgia as a member of Congress for the past 12 years and am excited to now be joining the respected, growing Government & Regulatory Affairs Practice at Drinker Biddle & Reath.

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

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.

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

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.

There is no reason for a lobbyist to give us gifts. They are supposed to give us information.

A legislator has thousands of issues he must decide. Five minutes of access to present your case is very valuable.

The principle business of government is to further and promote human strivings.

We do not engage in lobbying as such. However, I do make contact with members of Congress when requested to do so.

I wasn't there for one constituent; I was there for a major economic interest of my state.

Try spending a good chunk of your life as a reformer in the New York State Senate. See how you like it.

I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.

We're all about trying to create ideas to help get businesses to grow and listening to businesses to help them out.

I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

I used to be a computer engineer, and I can make really good code, and we can make systems that work really well, and we can make the application a great experience, but when you have to translate bits to atoms, you need folks who are used to working with city governments, with state governments, and so I like to say we're in a political campaign.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I'm a professional lawyer.

We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful.

My staff in Washington and in the state will be dedicated to constituent services and the best representation for our state.

We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.

My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute to the development of the state.