Corruption Quote by Dean Phillips

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

— Caroline Kennedy

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

— James Hetfield

As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting…

— Steve Forbes

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

— James Hansen

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

— Stephen Moore

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks…

— Nina Easton

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so…

— Molly Ivins

Money was the manure of politics.

— Barbara Mertz

What I see in Washington reminds me of what I saw in Montgomery when I was first elected Alabama's Attorney General. In Montgomery, corruption…

— Luther Strange

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

— William Greider

All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.

— John McCain

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than…

— Richard Ojeda