George Evans Quotes

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Almost every special interest lobby was organized to prevent reform.

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

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

There is no way for people to vote against Goldman Sachs.

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

There are three things that are important in politics today: money, money and money.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.

Big money is ruining the political system.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.