Campaign contributions Quote by James L. Buckley

The media has a key role to play in ending corruption.

— Kiran Bedi

I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance…

— Mark Shields

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that…

— Bernie Sanders

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

— Milton Friedman

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does…

— Adam Curtis

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

— Robert Dallek

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

— Caroline Kennedy

“The wealthy exert a commanding influence over the state through virtually unlimited political campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists, the revolving door that shuffles former…

— David A. Nibert

“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting and buying…

— Jack McDevitt

“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to…

— Steven Magee

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the…

— Anonymous

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates…

— Zephyr Teachout