Buying Influence Quotes

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

Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public office.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment... will think they have an option to buy.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

The more money we have to throw around the better off we're going to be. I think this country doesn't understand its power around the world economically—its ability to buy friends.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

You know it's easy here to buy journalists.