Lobbying famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.
-- Bianca Jagger -
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
-- Carter Burwell -
Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
-- Jack Abramoff -
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
-- Jack Abramoff -
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
-- Jamie Dimon -
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.
-- Kenneth R. Miller -
There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.
-- Leo Hindery -
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of his responsibility to the enterprise itself. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.
-- Peter Drucker -
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
-- Stanley Crouch -
In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.
-- Steven Weinberg -
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
-- Wim Wenders -
Medical ***** users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man with glaucoma.
-- Conan O'Brien -
When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.
-- Tim Worstall -
Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.
-- Bill Press