Evan Thomas Quotes

Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

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

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

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

Washington is rigged to favor people who have an army of lobbyists.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

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.

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

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

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.

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.

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

I don’t know how to do what you have to do to get something out of a congressman.

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

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

If not checked the power of money will soon control the elections of the President, the senators and the members of the House of representatives.