Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

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

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

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

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

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

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

Something is systemically wrong with Congress today, and it's money, the pursuit of money, the endless pursuit of money, the virtual hourly pursuit of money, either to finance the perpetual campaign or to maintain a certain standard of living.

Large sums of money really unbalance the democratic process.

It's obscene how money is driving politics.

This system stinks and every senator who participates in it knows it stinks. And the American people are right when they mistrust this system, when what matters most in seeking public office is not integrity, not ability, not judgment, not reason, not responsibility, not experience, not intelligence, but money …. Money dominates the system. Money infuses the system. Money is the system.

Poor people don’t make campaign contributions.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

They are one of the most profitable industries in the world, and they’re throwing money into Washington DC. They’re buying politicians.

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.

Donald Trump came to a political field that had already been shaped by big money in politics.