Quotes About Obama Lobbyists

#1. Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result. - Author: Barack Obama

#2. Money is a form of alchemy, [ ... ] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness. - Author: Jasper Fforde

#3. Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way. - Author: Jesse Ventura

#4. Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could. - Author: Drew Brees

#5. If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds.
~ President Obama - Author: Chris Smith

#6. I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher! - Author: Steve Farrar

#7. The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for. - Author: Jay Leno

#8. Don't settle for being an option; become a priority. - Author: Matt Mitchell

#9. Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago. - Author: Daniel H. Wilson

#10. It was everything dirty and wrong and evil and degrading, and he did it over and over again to keep his secret safe. And also because his dark side got off on it. It was Love, Symphath Style, - Author: J.R. Ward

#11. I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older. - Author: Jason Fuchs

#12. Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself. - Author: Jennifer Brown

#13. Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money. - Author: Barack Obama

#14. We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. - Author: Peter Greenaway

#15. In the last few months, he'd found himself prey to strange twinges that, after some research, he had discovered to be his conscience. - Author: Jonathan L. Howard

#16. It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness. - Author: Rick Joyner

#17. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? - Author: Buddha

#18. Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try to
restrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within? - Author: Deep Trivedi

#19. All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. - Author: Michel Faber

#20. What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,. - Author: Nicolas Sarkozy