Lobbyist Quotes

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

The genesis of Donald Trump's relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the '70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

If you got something [legislation] you want to slip through here, just give it to me, old pal. I'll make it Irish for you.

John Boehner - doesn't he look like every guy you've ever seen at a hotel bar? He looks like the kind of guy who licks his thumb when he counts his money.

In any single "first-class" hotel in Washington, at any time during midsession, at least half a dozen of these lobbyesses are thus at work at once, each one roping in her dozen or ten of wild-cat Congressmen. The lever of lust is used to pry up more legislators to the sticking point than money itself avails to seduce.

Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

When I see a man holding a fat office, sounding 'the horn on the borders' to call the people to support the man on whom he depends for his office. Well, thinks I, no wonder the man is zealous in the cause, he evidently has an axe to grind

A crony is a presidential advisor you don't like.

Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.

We need 50 more Jack Abramoffs.

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

If your selling access to somebody who is a future president or current secretary of state, or if there's an implication that you are, that matters.

Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

It's a tough job being a politician.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

President Trump watches a lot of television. I mean, really a lot. His favourite channel is Fox. Now just imagine somebody wants put a message in front of the president. You can hire a lobbyist or you can buy a minute on Fox or you can even pay somebody at a think tank to articulate your message and then pay a booker at that think tank to get that person on Fox and put the thought directly in the president's ear.

If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.

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You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.