Accepting Quote by Newt Gingrich

It's not controversial to say that private donors come with private interests.

— Leslyn Lewis

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

— Barack Obama

The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their…

— Emma Goldman

All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others.

— Konrad Adenauer

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to…

— Andrew Jackson

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions…

— Bob Beckel

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

— Jay McInerney

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

— Nicholas Johnson

Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but…

— William O. Douglas