Bookselling Quote by Lisa Adams

“A politician in our democratic government is a broker for the use of government force to the highest bidders.”

— Erne Lewis

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society…

— Alain de Botton

“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.”

— Parker J. Palmer

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the…

— Frank Herbert

“When bad news sells, money politics buys.”

— Toba Beta

The marketplace is democratic.

— Pericles

“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.”

— David A. Santos

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

“One of the crucial traits of real leaders in a democracy is the ability to help people become better informed so that society can…

— William W. Lewis

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make…

— George Burns

The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence…

— Robert Kuttner