Bill Maher Quotes

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Washington is dominated by big money.

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.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

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.

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

… lobbyist-larded Washington

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington's a cesspool of money.

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

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.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

When we have congressmen and top state politicians all working together with powerful interests, what have we got to fight against them? Not much, except to ask for justice.

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