Moby Quotes

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.

Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

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.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

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

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

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

Political parties usually accept funding from large industrialists and are then obliged to bow down to the demands of these individuals. When the government is funded by people's money, it will work for the people.

Politicians need money at election time and money to get the vote. Well, more than half of money in election comes from corporate interests whose interests are in polluting the Chinese environment and making products.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

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

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.

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

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

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

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.

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

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.