The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Money in politics is a huge issue.
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
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 now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.