Elizabeth Warren Quotes

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

The special interests are protected in Washington and the public interest is submerged.

Lobbyists and special interests continue to take advantage of loopholes that allow them to host lavish receptions and pay for trips for members of Congress. Those practices represent exactly what's wrong with Washington, and I'm committed to ending them.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.

We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.

When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there!

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.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

I noticed that the highly organized lobbies in Washington were producing results regardless of the justice or injustice of their demand.

We've got a thousand lobbyists in thousand dollar suits giving you a thousand reasons we can't change.

The only accountability-free zone in America: Washington DC.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

The rules are written in Washington DC by members of Congress so as to benefit themselves.

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

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

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

Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.

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

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.