Andrew Young Quotes

Big business does not want honest government.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

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

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

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

This place is being corrupted by money. Anyone who does not believe this is not living on this planet…. Anybody with their eyes open knows that we have a problem.

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

Corporate executives are not all that conservative….They are not interested in the social issues and the big boys and girls are not interested in fighting regulation because that’s what keeps the little boys and girls from becoming big boys and girls.

There is a steady flow between corporate board rooms and government decision making centers.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

The financial firms—the same ones who were involved in the 2008 meltdown—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And frankly, they own the place.