David Dewhurst
Related Families in central Virginia are sick and tired of Representative Goode putting lobbyists and the sp... KATE BEDINGFIELD Economic problems are going to rise to the surface. Therefore, more Chinese firms will be turning fo... BATES GILL OLIVIA WILDE Under the Bush administration and Republican Congress, the special interests and their lobbyists are... PATRICIA MADRID One-third of all city finance officers in the state change annually. We have an annual finance offic... ELAINE HENDRICKSON We are confident that when we convene for the upcoming special session, we will meet the threshold o... CHRIS CUTRONE The best board members are those who are the most involved and have time to look out for the interes... ANDREW METRICK Committee chairs attract thousands of dollars from the lobby firms, companies and high-powered lobby... GLEN MAXEY The proposed zone is nothing more than a giveaway exception for developers waving the magic biotech ... AL FORMAN JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY This current culture of corruption has helped Missouri families see that it is lobbyists with too mu... CLAIRE MCCASKILL It's kind of typical campaign finance in Florida. You find these wealthy special interests who are g... BEN WILCOX Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to t... ADAM COHEN As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campa... JOHN HARWOOD As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're go... TED ARRINGTON The speaker's prudent course of action will allow the pharmacy school to open, and the state will ha... ALEXIS DELEE TED CRUZ He invented it for farmers so they could press their own oil and run their own machinery. Somehow al... DOUG KUJAWA [Experts say economic concerns are going to dominate discussions about China in Congress in the next... BATES GILL BERNIE SANDERS MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY Blue Quail Resources and their president Joe Gregory are well respected members of the oil and gas c... DAN LLOYD To effectively address the scandals in Washington, which revolve around the multiple ways lobbyists ... FRED WERTHEIMER It's hard to say if companies would leave, but attracting companies in would be an issue, if they se... DENIS HANKS DONALD TRUMP MALCOLM GLADWELL If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damagin... ROBERT ZUBRIN Some companies would rather not implement a system until they have their entire records management s... ROGER ERICKSON We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. TOM DASCHLE I know the summer time is where they really try to weed those guys out. There are guys who really wa... VINCE CARTER We want to know everything about their world -- what they want to get out of their life, their relat... JEFFREY E. BUSH Every year there are hundreds of educational bills that go through our capitol. The Los Angeles Unif... SUPERINTENDENT PAUL ALDERETE BILL BRADLEY I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in... ANNA AURILIO BRUCE BERESFORD I am going to ask for more meetings with the Finance Committee, with the School Committee. I want mo... BEN GREENBERG These are companies that dominate our day-to-day life, from retailing and air travel to banking, fin... EYAL YANAI The Western oil companies have really been kept out of Saudi Arabia for many, many years, and I thin... ARCHIE DUNHAM The mining companies in Zimbabwe are not large enough to expand production facilities or finance gre... JACK MUREHWA France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of ... JAMES WOOLSEY They're addicted to campaign money. And the lobbyists are the people who provide it for them. CELIA WEXLER DAVID DEWHURST We need to clean up Congress. The people of Western North Carolina want to know that lobbyists and t... HEATH SHULER I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate in... FLORIAN MUELLER I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate in... FLORIAN MUELLER I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both priva... EHUD BARAK Once you kind of end the money chase, elected officials are far less susceptible to some of the attr... MARY BOYLE This is a gift to gas station operators and to oil companies. MICHAEL MADIGAN You have to be ... very careful with credit-card companies -- that they're not experiencing above-av... JAMES MCDERMOTT STEVE BLANK KID ROCK We question whether companies will be able to pass their input increases on. Even if the oil price g... GRAHAM SECKER For those lobbyists who immerse themselves in the substantive details, this won't be a negative thin... SCOTT SEGAL Lobbyists are just priming the pump. They don't have to make contributions, so you have to assume th... LEAH RUSH the Senate caved in to oil and gas companies that are rolling in record profits. KAREN WAYLAND If enacted this year, campaign finance reform would reduce the power of corporations and wealthy ind... RICHARD GEPHARDT It's very difficult for consumers to go to the gas pump and pay record high prices for gas and then ... MARK PRYOR Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are i... RACHEL KUSHNER Oil above $70 and the threat of a weakening U.S. economy are going to shake out those hangers-on in ... ANGUS GLUSKIE Even in a year when we had a major hurricane hit the Texas Coast, insurance companies are making ext... ALEX WINSLOW Developers get whatever they want and they get it because of the contributions by them and their lob... ED STANTON HA-JOON CHANG We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while th... ANDREW SPENCE To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who ar... DANIELE LANZAROTTA BARACK OBAMA The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not... ANDREW GOULD JAMES LOVELOCK Value has become more important over time due to a combination of factors such as incentives, lease ... DAVID MCKAY We feel the best education for each individual child is with school choice. It involves the parents ... FRANCIE TOLAN State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rat... ARJUNA MAHENDRAN There are a lot of companies that don't necessarily know if they can be independent companies. So a ... ANDREW SCHROEPFER The trucking companies are also tacking on extra charges to us for their increased gas expenses. So,... BOB HEFFERNAN BARBARA BOXER SUSANA MARTINEZ Anytime you deal with school finance, there's a possibility districts will have to make tough financ... BRAD MITCHELL It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. ROBIN LEACH Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school... JAMES S. COLEMAN LUDWIG VON MISES Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased th... MARTY MEEHAN It's not too late to save the Arctic Refuge from devastating oil drilling. We have to make our voice... BILL MEADOWS ART BUCHWALD As growth gathers momentum, companies are regaining some of their lost pricing power. This increases... LUIGI SPERANZA With the rapid expansion of companies operating on a multinational basis, companies are going to fac... LISA ROWAN If Wall Street, corporate users and real estate owners are looking to the service sector for informa... IAN CAMERON Major oil companies are seeking technology suppliers who can serve their needs across regions or aro... MARK SCHOEN With over $8 billion available before the Perry tax plan is even considered, any school finance plan... DONNA NEW HASCHKE Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner stor... NE-YO They are reducing capacity, so that could be good news for some European companies and pretty much i... HENK POTTS There is a perception that special interest lobbyists are controlling the show. I think we need to c... BILL HALTER PETER SCHUYLER Everything they espoused to Congress and to state leaders was always what's in the best interests of... CURTIS HEBERT JR If the vote were held today [in the Finance Committee] it would fail. It is notable that there is bi... ROBERT TORRICELLI Its time for Gov. Perry to step up and pay attention to the educators and parents of Texas, who have... AMBER MOON We used to do a special rodeo performance for city school kids but that got shut down. For some of t... CHAD CABRAL They all know that is what they are here for. They are here to get ready for that test. This school ... DAWN HAGNESS We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or... AHMED IBRAHIM They've turned into begging lobbyists at best. Most of these guys for the entirety of their life hav... CRIS COLLINSWORTH AARON PATZER Given the recent Texas Supreme Court decision requiring a restructure of the state school finance sy... BILL ZIMMERMAN JAY LENO
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales compan... 
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subje... 
If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree w... 
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they... 
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different ... 
I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything. 
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo... 
What we have to do is allow the people to set the agenda for this country and not the special intere... 
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move... 
If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will... 
Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiri... 
You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and... 
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very f... 
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax ... 
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put ou... 
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like t... 
During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, ... 
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich to... 
It is an honorable calling that you have chosen. Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless i... 
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something becau... 
If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books wr... 
Plans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons.... 
You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative vi... 
These are all items we're going to seriously consider, ... But when we only have a finite amount of ... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... 
I always go for simplicity. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
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People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
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I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 
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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. 
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T... 
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street... 