#special interests

I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#away #cannot #four #going #i

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#believe #class #courage #decided #deliver

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!' ↗

— John Boehner

#bill #buzz #healthcare #healthcare bill #interests

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#friends #good #interests #must #needs

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest. ↗

— Chris Christie

#interest #interests #national #national interest #out

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#been #believe #captured #cares #government

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#above #been #bosses #democracy #designed

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#average #being #citizens #few #gets

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. ↗

— Barack Obama

#built #chasing #come #could #country

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. ↗

— Barack Obama

#class #come #families #front #gotta