Top 1200 Money In Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

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

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in America: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.

As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

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

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in this country: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.

I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.

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

If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

My reason for joining politics is not to make money, as I have enough of my own, but to help the poor.

I don't think I'd really talked about politics - governmental politics specifically - very often, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to do so for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I'm not that well-versed or educated in politics.

My family was entirely political, all the time, on the left. The opposite of that is not to be political on the right. It's trying not to be - politics is not everything. There's life other than politics. Politics intrudes.

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

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

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

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

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

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

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

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

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.