Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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.

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

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.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

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.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

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

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

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

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

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

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