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I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm not a lobbyist.

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

I ran for Congress, just once.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.