Quotes About Money

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.