Sheryl Crow Quotes

We do not engage in lobbying as such. However, I do make contact with members of Congress when requested to do so.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

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.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

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.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

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.'

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

There’s a real fundamental need for us. You think we have a bad system now? Without us lobbyists, just see what kind of government we would have them

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

PACs represent thousands of little people.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or voting for the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

A legislator has thousands of issues he must decide. Five minutes of access to present your case is very valuable.

Politics is about power, and it is about group power.

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a powerful lobby ... But there is no lobby for the people.

A majority of Senators placed on the Committee on Interstate Commerce were men whose sympathies were with the railroads.

Almost any member of ours is more effective with his elected representatives than I am.