Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

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.

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

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

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

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

This place is being corrupted by money. Anyone who does not believe this is not living on this planet…. Anybody with their eyes open knows that we have a problem.

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.

This career [politics] of plundering and blundering.

It is money that achieves success ... nowadays. Thank God, my political career ended with the beginning of this corrupt political era.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

The people who I serve believe that the means by which I came to office corrupt me.

And when the guy [politician] says “Yes, I took money, but it didn’t influence my vote”? Oh, come on. The company that’s giving you the money thinks it is going to influence the vote. Why else would they give you the money?

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

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

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

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