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  • We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  • The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

    Country   Money   People  
  • I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

    "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know anyone else who fits that definition, but I know a lot of really hard fighting progressives in the Democratic party who have stood up time, and time again against special interests, against the powerful on behalf of those who are left behind and left out.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

    Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books
  • Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

    Integrity   Media   Voice  
    Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics
  • The ultimate crime is not to care.

    Peace   Special   Care  
  • The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

    Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”
  • Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

  • Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand.

    "Why Is There So Much Money in Politics?" by Ron Paul, February 4, 2002.
  • I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

    Jobs   Thinking   Special  
  • Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

  • Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so as to give their candidate an edge and allow the power of massive money to be felt. But reform laws will become irrelevant and redundant as the Internet replaces the special-interest fat cats as the best way to raise money and takes the place of TV as the most effective way to get votes.

    Cat   Law   Giving  
  • I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

    Song   Peace   Sorry  
    Song: Song For A Dying Planet, Album: Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992
  • When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

    Peace   Ocean   Sky  
    Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992
  • The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

    Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
  • I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.

  • This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

    "Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels". Lecture by Murray Rothbard, 1986.
  • I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

    Regret   War   Sacrifice  
    Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.
  • The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

  • So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

    Rip   Oil   Special  
  • Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.

    Views   Order   Political  
    Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.1, AK Press
  • In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct.

    Dark   Law   Practice  
  • If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy

    Peace   Love Is   Energy  
    Song: Let Love Be Your Energy
  • They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

    Song   Peace   Children  
    Song: Ghetto Blaster, Album: Body Wishes
  • It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

    Peace   Military   War  
  • The lobbyists, the special interests, the special pleaders, if you will, the super PACs the billionaires, these people are apoplectic about the rise of Trump. He can't be bought. He can bring sweeping conservative reform.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
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