Jasper Fforde Quotes

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

What is there that money will not do?

It all boils down to power and money.

There is no fortification so strong that money cannot take it.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

One usually obtains [diplomatic] influence through the press, and that costs money ... or through the purchase of prominent ... parliamentarians, for which one also needs a great deal of cash.

Any fortress can be stormed provided there is a way up for a donkey with a load of gold on his back.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

Money speaks in Utah.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

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

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.