Those who have lobbyists are more likely to get what they want …. Those who have more money [to spend on lobbying] are more likely to prevail.
Mr. [Judah P.] Benjamin, unquestionably, will have great influence with the President [Jefferson Davis], for he has studied his character most carefully. He will be familiar not only with his "likes" but especially his "dislikes.
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.
We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.
Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.
The fickle populace always change with the prince.
There is many a powerful voice in politics that represents but a small vote.
Even tiny special interests are made up of people whose votes are important to someone.
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
Every voter became Narendra Modi.
With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.
