Bennett Miller Quotes

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

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

I spent 33 years ... most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short I was a racketeer for capitalism.

You don't want Congress peopled by millionaires.

The only people whose views count in the legislation that passes are those with big money. It doesn’t matter what the great majority of Americans want. Our Congress is bought.

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

If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.

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

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

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

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.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Once the Secretary of State invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you’re sunk.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

It all boils down to power and money.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.