The Armenian American lobby is one of the most powerful ethnic lobbies in the US, It is today considered to be the second most powerful ethnic lobby in America after the Jewish lobby.

Turkey merits a better understanding in the United States, preferably based on clear answers to hard questions that erupt in Congress every year, usually at the behest of the Greek and Armenian lobbies.

The United States recognizes the value of Turkey's friendship, although powerful Greek, Armenian and pro-Kurdish lobbies in Washington will make it difficult for President Clinton to draw the two countries as close together as he would like.

Passage of Section 907 was influenced the powerful Armenian American lobby in the U.S. Congress, in response to the blockade imposed by Azerbaijan on Armenia in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

The Armenian American lobby is the loose coalition of groups and individuals who influence United States foreign policy in support of Armenia and its policies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski ranks the three most effective ethnic lobbies in the United States as the Israeli American Lobby, the Cuban American lobby and the Armenian American lobby.

A strong coalition in Washington, led by powerful Greek, Armenian and pro-Kurdish lobbies, presses for action against Turkey, but successive administrations have blocked it on the grounds that Turkey's strategic position is too valuable.

During his Washington visit, Mr. Aliyev made a point of condemning what he called the outsized influence of the Armenian lobby.

Until recently, the influential Armenian lobby in Washington dominated debate about the occupied region, Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Armenian lobby is so vociferous in this Parliament precisely because of the apparent conspiracy of silence that has surrounded the genocide question for almost a century.