Political Cronyism Quotes

Influence, power and money have invaded our political process …. If we leave it to the politicians, it is unlikely that anything will be done.

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.

MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Mr. Bush has eliminated the middle man and simply allowed lobbyists to run our government.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.

The only law Washington can be counted on to respect: It is the law of dispersed costs but concentrated benefits

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

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.

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.

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

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

A crony is a presidential advisor you don't like.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

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

The President is going around the country handing out so much pork that the Agriculture Department is going to have to station a meat inspector on board Air Force One.