Lobby Groups Quotes

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

Not all special interest groups are bad.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be influenced to an ever greater extent by the interests of Bitcoin owners who - in turn - will lobby to keep the Internet and Bitcoin alive and growing.

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

As some of us can testify, the viciousness of the lobby groups funded by the fossil fuel industry, and the publications that amplify their message, knows no limits. As we have already seen, they treat even children as fair game.

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.

The degree of influence with government, is dependant upon a variety of resources- of time, of money, of learned capacity- that are distributed unevenly between different sections of the population.

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

Priorities are set by legislators, regulators and industry interests. The consumer gets the left-overs.

You've got as much right to lobby here as any steel corporation.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Even tiny special interests are made up of people whose votes are important to someone.

It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

Today's uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics.

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.