Corruption Quote by Jane Mayer

“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

Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded…

— Murray Rothbard

“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under pressure to…

— Jason Hickel

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool…

— David Harsanyi

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to…

— James Cook

“The assumption soon proved wrong. Instead, as critics had warned, more and more of the money flooding into elections was spent by secretive nonprofit…

— Jane Mayer

“All the pieces of the puzzle were in play—money, different forms of currency, taxes, fees, debt, slavery, news, media, conditioning, programming, politicians, political parties,…

— Jasun Ether

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at…

— Ralph Raico

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance…

— John Maynard Keynes

“frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of…

— Howard Zinn