Quotes About Money

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.