Chuck Norris Quotes

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

America has the best congress money can buy.

Money in politics leads to bad things—and I am bipartisan in that view.

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

The principal reasons that special interests can extract their price from government is money .... Those who do not accept money from PACs are those who have other sources.

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

Money in politics is like ants in your kitchen. You close all the holes and get them all out or they'll find their way in again.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

Friendship is the most corrupting influence in politics.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.