In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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.
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.
Money in politics is a huge issue.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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