James Carville Quotes

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

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

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

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.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

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

Washington's a cesspool of money.

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

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.

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.

The legislation is made up down on K street

Money is the mother's milk of politics

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

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

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

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

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

Many of these [big political] donors are my friends. Those people are not like charities ... They Want. These are total tough cookies. When they give millions and millions of dollars, they're not doing it for the good of the American Cancer Society. They're doing it for themselves.

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.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

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