George Hamilton Quotes

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

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

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

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Maybe, just maybe, something is wrong when the greatest part of new money earned in our country goes to the top 1 percent.... There is something profoundly wrong then the millionaires and billionaires are running the politics of our country.... When billionaires are buying elections, that is not democracy.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

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

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 as what they do every day.

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

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.