American tradition Quote by Zephyr Teachout

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated…

— Bernie Sanders

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute…

— Joan Didion

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

— James Hetfield

We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually…

— Arundhati Roy

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our…

— Paul Wellstone

It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped America of its wealth and…

— Donald Trump

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of…

— Robert Payne

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in…

— John Adams

“United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, has become a “plutonomy” where “economic growth is powered by, and largely consumed by, the…

— Nicholas Carr

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

— Angus Deaton

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

— Michael Pare