Words matter. These are the best Special Interest Quotes from famous people such as Brian Baird, Joe Sestak, Fran Lebowitz, Kirsten Gillibrand, Heather Cox Richardson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You don’t get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn’t accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.
Americans want someone who is accountable to them above self, above party, and above any special interest. They want a President that has a depth of global experience to restore U.S. leadership to the world and to protect our American dream at home.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.
In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and mothers protected by their menfolk, or silences them as special interest harpies demanding government benefits that will destroy individualist men.
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
I’ll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I’m not going to take a penny of special interest money.
As a freedom-lover and avid outdoorsman, I understand the importance of protecting the Second Amendment, which has been under attack by liberal special interest groups funded by elitist billionaires.
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don’t have urbanites, you don’t represent eaters, okay? You don’t have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.
If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.
Public servants should be focused on serving the public – not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation – not an exception.
We have put the energy needs and costs of hardworking Coloradans before any special interest agenda or false promise.
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take special interest money.
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
I’ve made it clear that I’m not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists – ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine’s example by empowering the voices of small donors.
Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn’t the winning play. The ability to pay your bills, send your kids to a good school, and keep your family safe are ‘women’s issues’ after all.
I’m sorry I’m not gay or Jewish, so I don’t have a special interest group of journalists that support me.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there’s going to be blowback.
If you’re a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don’t go vote your special interest buddies’ interest and then come back and justify it.
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we’re going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.
Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?
While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.
What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one’s party, above self and any special interest.
Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash – and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress – is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.
As Governor, I will demand that Colorado’s government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special interest groups, the same groups that routinely attack anyone who doesn’t actively promote their agenda.
