Richard Cordray Quotes

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

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.

A liberal doesn’t sell out to the special interests.

My retirement will make no difference in [the newspaper’s] cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

… take the Constitution out of cold storage!

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

The American people did not send us to Washington to Work for Wall Street Banks.

Donalt Trump has drained the swamp right into his Cabinet.

Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.

Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

We don't need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.