Edwin Clarence Riegel Quotes

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

Edwin Clarence Riegel

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• Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

  

  Edwin Clarence Riegel
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control