Barbara Boxer Quotes

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.

From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.

The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

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.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

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

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

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

Big business does not want honest government.

I don't want to see this country run by big business and big labor.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

The Department of State has become a concession hunting agency for the Standard Oil Company

I do not allow hirelings of Standard Oil to define my democracy.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

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

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.