Lee Iacocca Quotes

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Special interests and Congress are too closely connected and the ties that bind are the millions spent on campaigns.

Money in politics leads to bad things—and I am bipartisan in that view.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter [immigrants], but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.

I have never seen such lobbying before as we have had in the last few weeks and such crookedness and complicity among members [of congress].

Washington is rigged to favor people who have an army of lobbyists.

Washington has become a permanent feudal class of insiders …those are people who are formally in office, staffers, journalists, hangers on … that becomes self-perpetuating … a Congress in which 42 percent become lobbyists… You have people coming here with no intention of going back to the farm.

The rules are written in Washington DC by members of Congress so as to benefit themselves.

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

Lobbyists and special interests continue to take advantage of loopholes that allow them to host lavish receptions and pay for trips for members of Congress. Those practices represent exactly what's wrong with Washington, and I'm committed to ending them.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.