Ally Carter Quotes

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

There is $2.6 trillion spent in Washington, with the authority to regulate everything in your life…. People will spend unheard-of amounts of money to influence that.

No politician ever admits where all his money comes from.

It is campaign money that calls the tune, a fact recognized by every politician within a few minutes after getting into politics.

The principal reasons that special interests can extract their price from government is money .... Those who do not accept money from PACs are those who have other sources.

People who think the might in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted if you will, by anything less than voters just doesn’t understand what its about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

People correctly perceive that the most powerful thing in Washington is money.

It challenges a linguist to define modern campaign contributions as something other than bribery.

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

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

Politicians don’t have a spine any more. They pander to whoever will give them money

The Federal campaign contribution limit of $2,500 is way too low. You can’t even buy a Democrat for $2,500.

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.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.