Political Capture Quotes

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

The battle is over the most basic ideas of our democracy; at stake,--according to both sides—is either the revitalization of politics, or its final capture by the powerful.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.