“The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.”
Harry S Truman
“It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.”
Maggie Gallagher
“This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.”
Newt Gingrich
“The President is the people's lobbyist.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as a middle man to go after your federal tax dollars.”
Ed Frank
“There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.”
Ron Dellums
“Mr. Murdock was the chief lawyer, chief lobbyist -- he was the whole package on this deal.”
John Cox
