Edmund Burke Quotes

It all boils down to power and money.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Money is the key that opens all locks.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

I can buy any man in the world.

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When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

Sex and money always prowl in the penumbra of power.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

There are three things that are important in politics today: money, money and money.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.