Gary Johnson Quotes

Congressmen are not bribed anymore. They simply have a lot of friends who are willing to help them out whenever they find it necessary.

The Federal guild system ... was crony capitalism before there was capitalism.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

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

Farmers who are legislators are the easiest to buy and seduce.

Tom Delay is a bag man for cigarette companies.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter [immigrants], but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

In Washington, they do take money—I know it’s open, though it’s hard to identify—they take money from the same people they regulate. Now, in New York City, you would never get away with that …

Our government is for sale.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

One thing is perfectly clear: We don't need another China crony in the White House!

When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.

At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.