Activist Quote by Hillary Clinton

People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes…

— Dylan Ratigan

For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

— Jason Kander

That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're showing the…

— Austan Goolsbee

Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a…

— Pramila Jayapal

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

Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we…

— Peter Thiel

We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope…

— John F. Kennedy

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the…

— James L. Buckley

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's…

— Lisa Murkowski

In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich…

— Ralph Nader

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to…

— David Plouffe