Cal Cunningham Quotes

Washington's a cesspool of money.

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Money in politics leads to bad things—and I am bipartisan in that view.

Donald Trump came to a political field that had already been shaped by big money in politics.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

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

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

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.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

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

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Big money is ruining the political system.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

America has the best congress money can buy.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

People correctly perceive that the most powerful thing in Washington is money.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

This [political fundraising] is a very sophisticated system … This is a legalized bribery system where no one has to say anything. I don’t have to say what I want—you [the politician] know what I want.