Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me."
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Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money."
Brian Schweitzer
Politician, farmer
"We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for."
Paul Ryan
Politician
"When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have a simple system, most Americans will be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard."
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"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."
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"To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself."
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"Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries."
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"There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration."
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"The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform."
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"My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists."
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"I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist."
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