Lobbying Quotes

I don`t believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don`t believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

On trying to get Paheli (2005) an Oscar nomination: "There`s a misreport here about our lobbying at the Oscars. The understanding that we have of the Oscars is very different from how it really is. Because Indian film, foreign films are not known, you`re supposed to hire a PR company which we did. It`s not as if you just go there, show your films, lobby and talk to them. You`re not allowed to lobby as in you`re not allowed to meet the Academy members, talk to them or even make a call to them. You just keep advertising in the `For Consideration For Oscars` category. We took out full page ads in papers like Variety and Hollywood Reporter. The only good thing we did was that we advertised very frequently, it was promoted on the same scale as the biggest of films. We did it because we could afford it." (Movie Mag, May 2006)

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

I don't understand why we are lobbying for constitutional change.

I read the book and e-mailed the organization, we got to talking and I asked if we could do a fundraiser for them. I then went to the school and started lobbying if we could have the football game with the fire fighters. They said they`d love to do it and here we are a year later, playing the game.

There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot more than a woman writing a book about masturbation.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

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?

It's a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.