Buying Quote by Michelle Alexander

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

— Joseph Nye

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public…

— Jesse Ventura

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

— Rob Walton

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden…

— Kam Williams

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same…

— Zephyr Teachout

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

— Clint Eastwood

Millions of Americans who work hard & play by the rules every day deserve a government and a financial system that does the same.

— Barack Obama

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

— Zephyr Teachout

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

— David Hare

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

— Bill Gates

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

— Naveen Patnaik

In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that,…

— Anonymous