Kim Young San Quotes

Big business does not want honest government.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

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

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.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

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.

The wonder of this month's military procurement scandal is that it can still scandalize us. The practices that are being exposed—the revolving door between government and industry, the mutual backscratching between the military and the companies that build the weapons—aren't abuses of the system. They are the system.

Say no to politicians who sacrifice the interests of individual investors to corporate interests.

Special interests are a roadblock wielding undue influence over policy makers. They seek to maintain short-term profits with little regard to either the long-term impact on the planet that will be inherited by our children and grand-children or the long-term economic well-being of our country.

Influence, power and money have invaded our political process …. If we leave it to the politicians, it is unlikely that anything will be done.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

Anybody who covers Washington and Wall Street knows that there is an awesome amount of self-dealing, most of it perfectly legal.

Three industries in particular—finance, real estate, and insurance—benefit from the system, which they achieve by lobbying heavily and systematically contributing to political campaigns in order to retain and fortify their privileges.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

In every developing country, even developed ones, vested interests prevent sectors from being reformed.

There is a public perception that the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street.

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.

Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.

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.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.