Amount Quote by Bernie Sanders

When you're elected to congress, they tell you that you're going to spend 4-hours a day talking to rich people to get more money…

— Jimmy Dore

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive,…

— John Witherspoon

There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view,…

— Bernie Sanders

Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who…

— E. L. Doctorow

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

— Marianne Thieme

The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these…

— William Greider

When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them…

— David Ramsey

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that…

— Matt Taibbi

Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor,…

— Coretta Scott King

I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when…

— Michael Lewis

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

— Lawrence Lessig