Molly Ivins Quotes

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.

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

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The corporate flacks, hacks, lobbyists, and influence peddlers, the practitioners of modern PR ... have become a kind of occupation army in our democracy.

The oil and gas lobby, with the vast amount of money at its disposal, is, I believe, the most diabolical influence at work in the nation's capitol. It has for years succeeded in blocking the assignment of public-spirited members to the tax-writing committees of the House and Senate, and also intervened in the election of leaders and assistant leaders in both Houses.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

Unfortunately, public officials are largely controlled by the very corporations against which they should proceed.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

Corporations write the legislation. They vote on the legislation. And they give advice on how to pass their bills.

Today’s cabinet members are yesterday’s board members … I am running for President to eliminate this kind of crony capitalism.