Policy Advocacy Quotes

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

The lobbyists are a kind of permanent other government.

Lobbynomics

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk about income inequality, raising wages in America, trade policy - that's a huge success. It's not putting pressure on a candidate. It's mobilizing people.

Robert F. Kennedy Juvenile Justice Collaborative was formed in 2009 to improve federal youth reentry policy through advocacy, coalition building, and giving voice to youth who are directly impacted by the justice system.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.

We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

What I always say with these things, when you're trying to do comprehensive things like tax reform, there will be 20,000 lobbyists in Washington trying to work their will on that piece of legislation so, you know, people think it's going to be a lot easier than it will end up being.

There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.

In the White House, I had influence. At Breitbart, I had power.

The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

Half the lobbyists in this town claim credit for the sunrise at least once a week.