Top 100 Quotes About Money And Politics
#1. 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
#2. Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics
Bradley Whitford
#3. 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
#4. The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes.
Richard L. Hasen
#5. 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
#6. Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
#7. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
George Washington
#8. As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins
#9. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Yuval Noah Harari
#10. If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt
and fueled even more than Hollywood by money
if that's possible.
Ben Affleck
#12. Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
Honeya
#13. If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Henry A. Wallace
#14. I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system.
Dave Barry
#15. Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.
Jose Mujica
#16. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
Barack Obama
#17. We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
Bryant McGill
#18. I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.
Rick Santelli
#19. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.
Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.
And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
Chris Martenson
#20. The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money
the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.
George Will
#21. Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.
Maureen Dowd
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Molly Ivins
#28. [Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.
Paul Krugman
#29. The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.
Bob Dylan
#31. Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
David Suzuki
#32. What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#33. Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
Diane Watson
#34. Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
Noam Chomsky
#35. If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them
and it won't be you; you can't afford them.
Juan Cole
#36. Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.
Jay Leno
#37. Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
Mike Huckabee
#38. Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.
Sunday Adelaja
#39. I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies
#40. Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.
Martin O'Malley
#41. On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
Ted Cruz
#42. Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.
Daniel Suarez
#43. In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.
Barack Obama
#44. We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in.
Annie Leonard
#45. With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money ... and he's pretty experienced at that.
Paul Ryan
#46. Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
Shane Smith
#47. In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
Foster Friess
#48. I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.
David Ogilvy
#49. Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Mark Twain
#50. I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
Natalie Massenet
#51. These various interests are well organized, command more wealth than most modern nations, and are represented in Congress with a strength far greater than is justified in any constitutional or democratic sense. (Modern politics is expensive - power follows money.)
Edward Abbey
#52. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffett
#53. In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
Paul Craig Roberts
#54. 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
#55. Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.
Barack Obama
#56. 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
#57. I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.
Phil Gramm
#58. Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
Glen Cook
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano
#67. The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#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. Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
Rush Limbaugh
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
David Horsey
#82. Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
Bill Gates
#83. 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
#84. Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
James Hansen
#85. [Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.
Rush Limbaugh
#86. 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
#87. Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel Blears
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
Lou Reed
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
