Politics Money Quotes

#1. My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Douglas Wilder

#2. The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#3. Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Hazel Blears

#4. Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. Can anyone name a president who really had the citizens in mind during the majority of his decisions in office? None of them did, and the current ones don't either. It's all about power, keeping power, and dishing out power to those who throw the most money at them.

Charlie Donlea

#6. As Plato: It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Rebecca Goldstein

#7. One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

Ogden Nash

#8. Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Lou Reed

#9. We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

Mark Hanna

#11. I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.
- The Duchess Gloriana XII

Leonard Wibberley

#12. Money is a servant to politicians and the country.
But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

Oliver Kemper

#13. The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

Marianne Williamson

#14. I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Mohsin Hamid

#15. Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Jerry Only

#16. The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter Glass

#19. The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.

Mark Shields

#20. As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.

Penn Jillette

#21. It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

David Levithan

#22. My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

Kam Williams

#23. In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Paul Craig Roberts

#24. The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.

Richard Salsman

#25. Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

John Ibbitson

#26. If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.

Maureen Dowd

#27. You can't eat politics, you can't sell them, and you can't sleep with them,' Drake liked to say. So you might as well make money out of them.

John Le Carre

#28. Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Angela Merkel

#29. You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

Bruce Sterling

#30. If poverty is not a result of lack of resources or opportunities, but of poor institutions, poor government, and toxic politics, giving money to poor countries - particularly giving money to the governments of poor countries - is likely to perpetuate and prolong poverty, not eliminate it. The

Angus Deaton

#31. To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.

Bernie Sanders

#32. A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling "Ready for Hillary" champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

Jimmy Fallon

#33. In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

Douglas Wilder

#34. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.

Sean S. Kamali

#35. Keep harping on about how Europe's close to accepting you," the American ambassador to Moldova suggested coldly to the president, when the latter came to ask for a loan. "They'll grab onto that like a rabbit after a carrot. But I'm sorry. I cannot give you any money.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#36. Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Thomas Paine

#37. When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?

Michael Scherer

#38. Under Capitalism the most important thing is to squeeze out more and more money for a few people to spend. This means that most of the other people
as well as the earth and the sea and all the creatures and plants and goggas
have to pay the price.

Sally Andrew

#39. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Henry Waxman

#40. Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

#41. All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

Thomas Piketty

#42. The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore H. White

#43. I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

Susan Straight

#44. I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's ... I had other things on my mind ... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

Mark Edwards

#45. The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

David Horsey

#46. Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Bill Gates

#47. When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Roger Morris

#48. Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

#49. The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Harry Browne

#50. [Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.

Rush Limbaugh

#51. If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

Brian Redman

#52. Everyone spends money freely that is freely given.

B.C. Chase

#53. It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert Byrd

#54. Ideology follows the money."
"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Lawrence Samuels

#55. We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Keith Davis

#56. And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Christy Romano

#57. The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Ted Shackelford

#58. I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#59. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

H.W. Brands

#60. What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Barack Obama

#61. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

#62. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

#63. It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Frank Dobson

#64. I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

Harry Triguboff

#65. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Warren Buffett

#66. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

William Greider

#67. Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

Ina May Gaskin

#68. I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!

Dennis Quaid

#69. And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Seth Godin

#70. When globalization collides with domestic politics, the smart money bets on politics.

Dani Rodrik

#71. We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

Hank Williams Jr.

#72. Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Gloria Steinem

#73. If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.

Zephyr McIntyre

#74. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Nikita Khrushchev

#75. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Pope Francis

#76. In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

Lawrence Lessig

#77. If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.

Thomas Sowell

#78. Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#79. When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.

Joel Berg

#80. Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Barack Obama

#81. The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Lysander Spooner

#82. Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#83. I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Phil Gramm

#84. Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#85. Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

Robert Grudin

#86. I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!

Pat Paulsen

#87. He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Tommy Douglas

#88. Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power

John Money

#89. People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

David Brooks

#90. I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

Russell Simmons

#91. Money was the manure of politics ...

Barbara Mertz

#92. Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Gary Coleman

#93. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

Glen Cook

#94. Where there's corruption in government, somebody or everybody's making a lot of money. That makes it dangerous.

Kenneth Eade

#95. Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers

Stieg Larsson

#96. Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone

Amy E. Black

#97. [I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Lawrence Lessig

#98. On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower.

Nancy Pelosi

#99. Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

#100. I keep my distance from politics. Lots of money has been offered to me for campaigning over the years, and I have always refused. I used to be very politically aware and very opinionated, but I don't want to involve myself.

Bipasha Basu