Ronan Farrow Quotes

Where enough money calls the tune, the general public will not be heard.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

Every government that exists -- or ever existed, or ever will exist -- is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves". Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

Huge sums of money, administrative manipulation, have all been mustered to prevent the people from expressing their voice.

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

It's obscene how money is driving politics.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Corrupt Bargain

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

Treason is a strong word but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful. Indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be, and vastly more dangerous interests that manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for a few. .

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public office.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others.

If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.