George Aubid Jr. Quotes

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

Money distorts the democratic process in a fundamental way.

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.

Washington is dominated by big money.

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

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

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

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.

Sadly we have government of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for the lobbyists. That is no way to run the Senate.

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

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

Almost every special interest lobby was organized to prevent reform.

Government runs by clout. That's how it runs, by clout.

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 legislation is made up down on K street

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.

We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

The only people whose views count in the legislation that passes are those with big money. It doesn’t matter what the great majority of Americans want. Our Congress is bought.

There are three things that are important in politics today: money, money and money.