Moving Staffers Quotes & Sayings

When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one. — Dharma Mittra

I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true. — Glen Cook

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. — James Madison

Don't you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can't be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won't matter. — Toni Sorenson

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back. — Mike Weir

More than one-third of congressional staffers turn to a career in lobbying after leaving Capitol Hill. It's clear the staffer-turned-lobbyist's value to special interests depends on the robustness of his or her network on Capitol Hill. According to an August 2010 study, when a lobbyist's former boss on Capitol Hill left office, the lobbyist's salary declined by an average of 50 percent in the six months following the departure.27 Moving from Capitol Hill to K Street isn't limited to staffers: In 2010, 37 percent of the newly out-of-office members of Congress went to work for lobbying firms or clients. After losing his run for Senate in 2006, Tennessee Democrat Harold Ford Jr. moved to New York to take a job with Merrill Lynch with a guaranteed annual compensation of $2 million. At the time he had no experience in finance. What he was paid for were his networks: — Christopher L. Hayes

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. — Eric Hoffer

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. — Nathaniel Hawthorne