Mike Huckabee Quotes

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

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

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

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

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

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

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

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

The financial firms—the same ones who were involved in the 2008 meltdown—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And frankly, they own the place.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.

A power has arisen up in the Government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

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.

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

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

Big business has no party and never shall have.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

The political battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight… when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.

The system of building up, by corruption, political machines dominated by a boss whom the corporations believe essential to them for corrupt purposes of their own, is too deeply entrenched even yet in our national life.