Government Quote by John W Gardner

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

— John W. Gardner

Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions…

— Ron Paul

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

— Stephen Pagliuca

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

— William J. Clinton

Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each…

— Patricia Schroeder

The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election [2016]. As an example, just one single trade deal they'd like to pass…

— Donald Trump

“And what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge? In a typical…

— Steven D. Levitt

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first…

— Jesse Ventura

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

— Joseph Sobran

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

— James Hansen