If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them, you have no business being up here.
Jesse Unruh (1922–1987) American politican
(Attributed)
(Source)
On lobbyists. In Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power, ch.13 "Adversary" (2003). A bowderized version of the quote can be found in Lester Velie, "This Is How Payola Works in Politics (by Assemblyman X as told to Lester Velie)," Reader's Digest (Aug 1960); Unruh was "Assemblyman X".

