Garry Kasparov Quotes

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

Anybody with any brain can figure out that if they can get on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, that’s where they ought to be because that’s where the money is. Once I got on Defense I went from being the skunk to being the prettiest girl at the party.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Money speaks in Utah.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Money is power and power gives you choice.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

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

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

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

I'm interested in power.

Money: power at its most liquid.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

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.