Richard Ojeda Quotes

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

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

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.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

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

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

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.

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.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

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.

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

Barack Obama is a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.

A liberal doesn’t sell out to the special interests.

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.

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

Everybody must be removed [from public office] who has the mentality of the capitalist.

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

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.