Campaign Contributions Quotes

“Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for.”
― Elizabeth Warren

“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.”
― Steven Magee

“What is it gonna take to beat the Iran... they fight forever.... we've been conditioned to think that the Israelis are worth something to us. They're not worth a nickel. I don't care if they survive or don't survive. I hope they do their best. But they've conducted nothing but hate and war against their immediate neighborhood since they were formed. Because Truman needed money in…. 1948 he took money from them and he recognized Israel. And George Marshall told him you’re gonna have nothing but trouble from now on. And General Marshall of course was correct.”
― Michael Scheuer

“Weak political leadership benefits the rich as it maintains the status quo and all its inequities.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The Citizens United decision profoundly changed American politics. The Court’s ruling effectively lifted any limitations on American corporations’ political expenditures. The ruling permitted for-profit corporations to use corporate funds for campaign contributions to support candidates and issues. It also permitted wealthy and well-connected individuals to form corporations as vehicles to solicit, collect, and disperse funds, with little to no transparency.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change