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We've never been to Chile before. The lobby is full of Priest fans. They're holding the albums and wearing our T-shirts.

Glenn Tipton

We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication. This is another attempt by the homosexual lobby to silence any views on homosexuality but its own.

Janet Parshall

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

Peggy Venable

You have lobbying firms out there, you have smaller consultancies on specific issues, but you don't have a comprehensive firm in education like this one.

John Danielson

We already heard talks of it happening so we had a public computer sit out in a lobby and asked people to vote. When they sat down to vote, most of them couldn't because it said they already did.

Chad Caldwell

He never had any relationship to the company to begin with. ... He never even practiced here. We specifically never lobby him.

Jeff Prescott

So they could add tax breaks for their friends in the lobbying community.

Robert Matsui

We can't just program away these issues. We actually have to organize together and do aggressive lobbying down at the statehouse.

Dave Knapp

What I would see him doing is lobbying. He could be an impressive resource for defense contractors in the state. I don't believe he will be a pariah because of the nature of the crime.

Gary Rose

It's a comfort that it will give us two more years to fight, to get ready to lobby government for some more help besides, say, Bill 27.

George McDonald

There was not some sort of pro-bestiality lobby.

Alfredo Gutierrez

This is not our bill. We didn't ask for the bill. We're not lobbying on the bill.

Jeff Bentoff

I've been here for four years, and I don't complain. I lobby quietly for the resources I think we deserve, and then we take the resources we're allocated and we do the best we can with it.

Paul Vallas

If we had a ceiling cap on appraisals, we would see those tax breaks for landowners and property owners. If I have to go to Austin to lobby for Midland County, I don't mind doing that.

Clay Harris

The only thing that may stand in our way is the pork rind lobby.

Rep. Gary Simrill

The first thing you've got to do is get a client. You can go up there and lobby all day long, but if you don't have a client, you're in trouble!

Rufus Jones

And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis.

C. David Heymann

We have been getting a lot of compliments. In the front lobby we've moved some things around and the Park & Rec. has had some of their guys in here painting and doing things to make it have more of a Waltham feel. The MDC really wouldn't let us do anything like that.

Tony Romano

It's a huge questionable situation. When it comes to lobbying, clients gravitate toward those with connections and being the chairman of someone's campaign is a huge connection because they control the lifeblood of that campaign.

Alex Knott

I'm a lobbyist, and I have no interest in shutting down lobbying.

Craig Holman

For me, the union is a very powerful lobby in state government. They have a constituency over the legislature so they can further a lot of my issues.

Rock Regan

Our lobbying contributions, like our political contributions, are in the public domain.

Denise Foy

Apple better get lobbying fast. There may be provisions for free commerce and antitrust that would give an angle to Apple to attack this position.

Francois G. Laugier

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

William Wyler

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Jan Jones

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Jason Reitman

The agriculture lobby is very strong in the state of Wyoming. So I don't know if we're going to be successful or not, but we're going to give her a go.

Lou Gehrig

This is a tragic capitulation to the special interest gun lobby.

Michael Barnes

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

We had 10 to 15 in the lobby at any one time, but the dogs were very well behaved and their owners had them in control.

Cheryl Conway

You can't just lobby. It's one part of a larger way to effect change.

Jackie Kruszewski

This argument has always been made that this will empower the lobby, and there's only one group that hates term limits more than politicians -- and that's lobbyists.

Paul Jacob

We're actively lobbying for the bill. We're down there every day.

Lou Gellos

But it's being abused by the oil lobby and proponents of drilling to try to get the legislation through a back door.

Arthur Mitchell

Certainly this is an opportunity for the new space companies. They've been lobbying NASA hard for something like this for years.

Jim Banke

It's just a divisive tactic that probably has political motive. We are aggressively lobbying legislatures to oppose the amendment.

Steven Black

It's created a class of super-lobbyists. They can get out of the lobby and into the inner sanctums of the Capitol.

Massie Ritsch

HP has not entered the process with an agenda to lobby for specific inclusions.

Christine Martino

Are free to gather, express themselves, lobby, and generally participate in the political process however they see fit.

Jon Bruning

Higgins came to our site independently with no lobbying. They came to the park, they saw the park, they liked the park.

Anita Mitchell

This is part of an overall lobbying effort from the administration.

Jaime Brito

I never saw a more effective lobbying organization.

Robert Mccarthy

He's great, and I frequently book conferences and meetings at the hotel just because of him, ... Many times, Luke is in the lobby greeting groups; he has a little doghouse there. He's a great addition and definitely a draw.

Anne Stevenson

You're looking for the tone of the people, how they're dressed, how they interact with one another. The lobby is a wonderful fishbowl into the culture.

Liz Ryan

We're very clear with our donors. If people are making inappropriate comment and try to lobby the governor, they will get their contributions returned.

Marty Wilson

I will lobby the concerned parties and will see what we can do in the matter.

Nana Sutresna

Committee chairs attract thousands of dollars from the lobby firms, companies and high-powered lobbyists — and those people get access.

Glen Maxey

The focus is on lobbying to get the formula (for reimbursement) fully funded.

Frank Connolly

We are certain no lobbying has taken place during the time in which John Boehner has been renting the property.

Don Seymour

It's very funny to say he lobbies Congress but does not lobby the [members ] he has connections to.

Alex Knott

The Foreign Ministry has been extremely helpful, lobbying our interests [abroad] in a good sense.

Vagit Alekperov

I see it as one of those things that our deer hunters should support. We have lobbyists that are down at the state capitol on a daily basis, lobbying for our land rights.

James Shropshire

Lobbying is like the fourth branch of government. It's a very powerful part of our government and our democracy.

Roberta Baskin

The 'Safety First' signs above the front doors are original and so is the old desk in the lobby.

Barbara Bartley

I did the most lobbying for the city for traffic issues.

Brian Michaels

I got off the bus, I noticed nobody had their luggage. 'Where are our bags?' I got to the lobby and I still couldn't find it.

Ricky Nolasco

Nobody is one asking Western companies to go and lobby the Chinese government to change its behavior. That's not possible. But what we are asking companies to do is change the way in which they respond to Chinese government behavior and the way in which they interact with it, and that they can control.

Rebecca Mackinnon

Our biggest fear is because of the power of the gun lobby in Canada, we are going to see gun control dismantled.

Wendy Cukier

The Chinese spend no money on lobbying. Their lobbying is really done by the American business community in Washington.

James Sasser

We have been lobbying for that for three years now. And the third time is going to be a charm.

Jim Hirni

That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.

Jo Maney

This is an academic program, not a Jewish or Israeli lobbying group, ... We will teach Judaism as a culture and as a history.

Dwayne Carpenter

The Chinese really don't do any lobbying. The heavy lifting is done by the American business community.

James Sasser

If you want to feed off the public trough, if you want to take public dollars, take them, but don't lobby.

Peggy Venable

Our lobby was very intense because of the opposition [to CNOOC in Congress].

Daniel Spiegel

Our challenge is to educate more people so that we can activate them. The prohibition in the D.C. appropriations bill is on lobbying activities, and this is not lobbying. This is education.

Ilir Zherka

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we're going so far backwards?

Joyce Johnson

That's why it's so exciting. It was not something we applied for. It's not a lobbying thing.

Harris Pastides

The lobby there, ... is the sort of place where you walk in and you feel like you're there to sign a treaty.

Chip Kidd

I don't anticipate that we're going to have the same kind of issues, which had a lot more to do with lobbying and Washington politics and compromising principles. I don't see any of that happening.

Shari Steele

The ethanol lobby is doing a very good job of pulling a fast one on the American consuming public.

Michael Economides

We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.

Evelyn Fox

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Eric Stern

The day he walked through the lobby with a live leopard on a leash is the day I threw him out.

Eddi Parker