Dan Bongino Quotes

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

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.

When we have congressmen and top state politicians all working together with powerful interests, what have we got to fight against them? Not much, except to ask for justice.

Washington is rigged to favor people who have an army of lobbyists.

Our politics has more than one kind of incumbent. There are the officeholders, and there are the people and corporations that have already made it in America, that want to protect and enlarge the advantages that they get from them.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

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

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

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

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

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

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

Members of Congress don’t want anyone to have more influence than they have—that’s why they hated Harry Hopkins.

The legislation is made up down on K street