Wendy Davis Quotes

When I have to choose between voting for the people or voting for the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.

The principal reasons that special interests can extract their price from government is money .... Those who do not accept money from PACs are those who have other sources.

Members of state legislatures are owned by doctors and lawyers. That's why workers' compensation cannot be solved.

It is in the committee that the dirty work is done ... away from the many-eyed scrutiny of the rest of Congress and the public ... special interest legislation usually originates in the committee room.

When the [political] clubhouse gets control of the seat of government, invariably the private interest outweighs the public interest, and corruption sets in.

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

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

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

Mrs. Clinton is the embodiment of a corrupt establishment owned by special interests, having personally enriched herself by giving closed-door speeches to Wall Street firms and the big banks.

The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform.

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

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