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
Jesse Unruh (1922-1987) American politican
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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".

 
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