Grassroots Campaigns Quotes

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

Lobbying is just another form of advocacy. It’s like trying a lawsuit.

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

I’ve been kept busy trying to ward off congressional resolutions of sympathy for these groups.

I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

We have too much legislation by clamor, tumult and pressure.

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

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

Whenever I tell people I am a lobbyist, there is an embarrassed pause.

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

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

There are a lot of shows that have been saved because the fans weighed in.

I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.'

I like the grass roots people the most.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.