Geoff Davis Quotes

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

There is $2.6 trillion spent in Washington, with the authority to regulate everything in your life…. People will spend unheard-of amounts of money to influence that.

People who think the might in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted if you will, by anything less than voters just doesn’t understand what its about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.

They are one of the most profitable industries in the world, and they’re throwing money into Washington DC. They’re buying politicians.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

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

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Big money is ruining the political system.

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

The hardest way to make a million dollars is to become a United States senator. Any vicious, impudent, brazen, shrewd, gifted person can think of an infinite number of better ways to become rich than to become a crooked politician.

The principal reasons that special interests can extract their price from government is money .... Those who do not accept money from PACs are those who have other sources.

The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers, and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all desirous ... to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.

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

The lobbyists have erected a brick wall around Washington DC—a wall that keeps them in and keeps you out.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

Politicians don’t have a spine any more. They pander to whoever will give them money

The Federal campaign contribution limit of $2,500 is way too low. You can’t even buy a Democrat for $2,500.

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.