Top 273 Lobby Quotes & Sayings

Consumers have to become an appropriately strong and vocal lobby capable of embarrassing the political establishment.

The entertainment lobby has bullied Sweden around.

A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'

The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia.

Soldiers don't have a lobby or a political party.

I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

I want enterprise and entrepreneurship embedded in the national curriculum and will continue to lobby government until it happens.

If the American people or Congress agrees with the illegal-alien lobby that deportation is morally abhorrent, the immigration laws should be changed.

When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

You're to the right of Hobby Lobby if you don't support $15. Hobby Lobby recognized that you got to pay people $15 an hour. So if Hobby Lobby gets it, and you don't as a Democrat, what's your problem, you know?

The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism and transphobia. The transgender lobby knows that censoring criticism allows the accusation of transphobia to prevail and appears willing to distort the words of those they disagree with.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

I just want to lobby for God.

I'm going to the lobby to sign babies and kiss CDs.

I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.

?There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

How many thousands of lives would be saved if we enforced our immigration laws, our guns laws, and our drug laws? Public safety is not being held hostage by the 'gun lobby,' but by the open borders lobby and the anti-law enforcement lobby.

Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?

You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.

Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.

Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

Conservative voters tend to believe that the 'climate change' agenda has been foisted upon us by an unaccountable lobby of politicised intellectuals.

If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

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