Winnie Byanyima Quotes

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Special interests are a roadblock wielding undue influence over policy makers. They seek to maintain short-term profits with little regard to either the long-term impact on the planet that will be inherited by our children and grand-children or the long-term economic well-being of our country.

I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich, and ruined our countries. I couldn't be happier.

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.

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.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

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

Five years ago, the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case told the richest people in America, "You already control the economy of the country. We are now going to let you control the political system as well".

President Junior is the mascot of crony capitalism.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter [immigrants], but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

Politicians can be bought and often are.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Democracy derailed …. An alternative form of government …. The initiative process has become a tool for millionaires and rich special interests.

Our enemy, and the enemy of all America, is the monopolistic government of the United States of America

Today’s expensive election campaigns are entrenching a culture of patronage [in Indonesia].

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

…ruling elites in many liberal societies and especially the United States, where money and special interests have created a corrupt political class that is out-of-touch with ordinary people, interested mostly in enriching themselves, and immune to accountability.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.