“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”– Jean-Paul Sartre Related Quotes “If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.”– Jeroen Dijsselbloem “Money is the best rule of commerce.”– William Petty “The reason that minorities and women don’t have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.”– Carol Moseley Braun