Carly Fiorina Quotes

Money is the mother's milk of politics

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

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.

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

Members of Congress like us for our information, but they love us for our money.

Politicians don’t have a spine any more. They pander to whoever will give them money

This [political fundraising] is a very sophisticated system … This is a legalized bribery system where no one has to say anything. I don’t have to say what I want—you [the politician] know what I want.

Our current Supreme Court, in the Citizens United case, took that which had been named corrupt for over 200 years [gifts to politicians] and renamed it legitimate..

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

He [Donald Trump] buys and sells politicians of all stripes.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

There is $2.6 trillion spent in Washington, with the authority to regulate everything in your life…. People will spend unheard-of amounts of money to influence that.

America has the best congress money can buy.

It is campaign money that calls the tune, a fact recognized by every politician within a few minutes after getting into politics.

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

A $5,000 campaign contribution to a member of Congress will hardly get you a thank you these days.

You ought to spread campaign contributions around so that you're not beholden to any one contributing group.

Money in politics is like ants in your kitchen. You close all the holes and get them all out or they'll find their way in again.

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

If you're on Banking or the Finance Committee, you don't even have to open your mouth. They'll throw money at you over the transom.