Elizabeth Drew 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.

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

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Laws go where money pleases.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

I can buy any man in the world.

Sex and money always prowl in the penumbra of power.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

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

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

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

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.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

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.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

It all boils down to power and money.

I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

The only people whose views count in the legislation that passes are those with big money. It doesn’t matter what the great majority of Americans want. Our Congress is bought.

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