This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
Ayn RandI agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.
Ayn RandLobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.
Ayn Rand