Jill Stein Quotes

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

Our enemy, and the enemy of all America, is the monopolistic government of the United States of America

There is a public perception that the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

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

The political battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight… when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.

I don't want to see this country run by big business and big labor.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

A ruling class has emerged. We no longer have government of, by and for the people but rather by professional legislators.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

Today’s cabinet members are yesterday’s board members … I am running for President to eliminate this kind of crony capitalism.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.