Luther Strange Quotes

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

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

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Farmers who are legislators are the easiest to buy and seduce.

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

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

Washington's a cesspool of money.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

You can’t have a corrupt lobbyist if you don’t have a corrupt Congressman or staff member…. It’s a team effort.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter [immigrants], but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

I have never seen such lobbying before as we have had in the last few weeks and such crookedness and complicity among members [of congress].

Washington is rigged to favor people who have an army of lobbyists.

This [political fundraising] is a very sophisticated system … This is a legalized bribery system where no one has to say anything. I don’t have to say what I want—you [the politician] know what I want.

Our government is for sale.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign finance reform would be irrelevant. After all, why would anyone spend money for influence, access, favors and tribute if the only thing that politicians do is to live up to their oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution?

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

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.