Wealthy Interests Quotes

Republicans always are gearing whatever they do to benefit the high end.

Money is not free speech. Money is property.

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

The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.

Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

The relationship between the policy desires of the wealthiest 10 percent of the population and the actual Federal public policy over recent decades often corresponded to a plutocracy rather than a democracy.

Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests.

If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.

In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.

The rich men trying to repeal Prohibition acted only to save themselves hundreds of millions of dollars by substituting an for an income tax, a liquor tax that would be paid by the masses.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.

We saw what Thom Tillis did in Raleigh. He went to Washington and in 2017 again voted for a tax bill that provided massive giveaways to corporate interests and the wealthiest, really capitulating to those corporate interests and his special interest backers. A consistent record in Raleigh, a consistent record in Washington.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

No matter how large, efficient, and mature … industries become, they continue to demand protection, and thanks to their wealth and political power, they get it. The longer they live, the bigger babies they are.