Dhirubhai Ambani Quotes

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

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.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

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.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.

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

I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.

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.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

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

Lobbying is just another form of advocacy. It’s like trying a lawsuit.

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

Politics is a matter of communications.

You cannot rely on House or Senate staff to pass a piece of legislation for you, but if you have antagonized staff, they can block you.

As government grows bigger and more directly involved in the economy, the question of who gets what, through the medium of the lobbyist as broker, is of paramount importance.

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

Lobbying is declared to be a crime.

Whenever I tell people I am a lobbyist, there is an embarrassed pause.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.