Quotes on Pressure Groups

“[The Dodd-Frank bill is] filled with loopholes big enough for Wall Street executive and traders to drive their Ferrari’s through.” Robert Reich

"I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“It is an iron law of politics that those who stand to lose from a change in policy lobby much more intensively than those who stand to benefit.” Robert H. Frank
“Lobbying firms are a cancer on the political process.” Jeffrey Sachs
“Pro-choice means the government respects the individual.” Barbara Boxer
“Taxation without representation is tyranny!” James Otis
“Taxes are … widely seen by Americans as a denial of freedom itself.” Jeffrey Sachs
“The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out.” Steve Stockman
“The bottom line is that it’s your money and you know how to spend it much better than anyone in Washington DC.” Tom Osborne
“The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.” Elmer Eric Shattschneider
“The United States is privately rich but socially poor.” Jeffrey Sachs
“Ultimately, the ethics of American business depend on the conscience of America’s business leaders.” George W. Bush
“We vote.” Slogan used by the NRA