Bernie Sanders Quotes

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case told the richest people in America, "You already control the economy of the country. We are now going to let you control the political system as well".

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

Washington is dominated by big money.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

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

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

We live in a country where Wall Street owns Washington.

Donald Trump came to a political field that had already been shaped by big money in politics.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

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.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

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.

Large sums of money really unbalance the democratic process.

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

Money speaks louder than words in Washington.