Ed McMahon Quotes

There's the stench of money around this building [the Capitol].

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

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.

America has the best congress money can buy.

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.

If you put enough money on the table, Congress will respond to the money.

On streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of money now changes hands—tying the hands of those elected to lead.

It's obscene how money is driving politics.

Members of Congress like us for our information, but they love us for our money.

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.

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

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.

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.

Our government is for sale.

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

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Big money is ruining the political system.