Bill Hicks Quotes

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

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

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

I do not allow hirelings of Standard Oil to define my democracy.

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

Corporations write the legislation. They vote on the legislation. And they give advice on how to pass their bills.

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.

Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

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

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

In the United States, it is easier to take over a party than to start a party.

The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American politics to corporate influence.

The social and political issues the world faces are bigger than a few leaders. I made a lot of work about corporate influence in government, which is a problem in both parties and under any president.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.