Zach Galifianakis Quotes

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Politics is broken.

Money in politics leads to bad things—and I am bipartisan in that view.

Congress has become the center of legalized bribery/

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.

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

I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

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

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

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

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

America has the best congress money can buy.

It is campaign money that calls the tune, a fact recognized by every politician within a few minutes after getting into politics.

We've got a thousand lobbyists in thousand dollar suits giving you a thousand reasons we can't change.