Lobby System Quotes

#1. The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Charles Kennedy

#2. To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.

Tariq Ali

#3. I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.

Tom Stoppard

#4. I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

Ai Weiwei

#5. At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

Mitch Albom

#6. It's stupid not to communicate what you know to the adults. They're only trying to protect us. And as far as the no-secrets zone, I can't agree to that. I don't even really know you guys, so why would I tell you my secrets? No way.

Cynthia Hand

#7. I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.

Chris Froome

#8. It's a funny phenomenon. You can never visit your own funeral, but if you want to see how people feel about you, commit a crime.

Elizabeth L. Silver

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

William H. Calvin

#10. This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Strom Thurmond

#11. A love so true, so consuming, so good.

Melissa Jagears

#12. I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never regain.

Michelle Figley