Donella Meadows

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

American Environmentalist

James B. Stewart

The idea that content is king has long rested on the notion that distribution - in whatever form it takes - is a low-margin commodity, and the biggest share of profits flows to the creators of original programming, who can sell to the highest bidder.

American Journalist

Vaclav Klaus

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

Czechoslovakian Statesman

Gordon Taylor

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

English Athlete

Cenk Uygur

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

Turkish Lawyer

Jeff Sessions

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

American Politician

Alan Shepard

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

American Astronaut

Jaan Tallinn

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

Estonian Businessman

Jason Kander

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

American President

Used when someone participates in an auction to buy items like art, antiques, or property.

Auction Context

Sometimes used figuratively to describe someone eager to obtain something non-material, like rights or privileges.

Non-Literal Use

The 'highest bidder' suggests a competitive situation where the one willing to pay the most wins.

Intensity Matters

Refers to companies or individuals proposing a price to complete a job or provide services, usually in a competitive process.

Business Proposals

Often used in formal tender processes where companies submit detailed proposals to win contracts.

Contract Nuances

Common in technical or industry language, not often used in everyday conversation.

Technical Language

 But it also dramatically reduced the redundancy in the system. SAM For those of you at home who never took an interest in civil engineering, let me spell it out for you. Redundancy equals safety. So if they hadn't done this with the lowest bidder, there's a possibility that that failure would have happened,

The Collapse of West...

 in that is that he remembered it differently. He remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system, perfectly safe rocket launch, because he's sitting in a rocket that has, like, a hundred thousand pounds of thrust, built by the lowest bidder. He was hoping it was going to work out okay.

Rob Legato: The art of...

 Every single morning the tuna bodies are lined up like cordwood and auctioned off to the highest bidder. It's really the lust for sushi that has created this. You know, I live in New England and I've been on the water most of my life. And I can remember back in the early 70's,

Swimming With an...

 advanced aircraft and missiles. But that means recognizing that technology that tracks who we are, what we do, what we say, and even in some cases, what we think, is a form of advanced weaponry. And these weapons are growing too powerful, available to the highest bidder,

Inside the massive (and...

 word you're the high bidder to heart disease good so I'm gonna have to say that is true I agree with Tom I think it's also true I think it's false you go false as it congenital liar yes I think it's fun as you don't want to die no stress in my life at all and you lie

You're Wrong PIPE National...

 Or dare I say, you could even advocate at the federal level, by politely asking our federal officials, some of whom may be here, to please not auction off our view of the invisible universe to the highest bidder to pollute at will, which is actually what happens.

The problem of light...

 that is that he remembered it differently he remembered that was a perfectly safe sort of gantry system perfectly safe rocket launch because he's sitting in a rocket that has like a hundred thousand pounds of thrust built by the lowest bidder he was hoping it

The art of creating awe...

 As populations expand and city growth is inevitable, it's important for those of us who build to relentlessly advocate for a democratic public realm so that dwindling urban space is not forfeited to the highest bidder. Thank you.

A stealthy reimagining...

 to the highest bidder, which was the Daily Telegraph, and then, you all remember, there was weeks and weeks of revelations, everything from porn movies and bath plugs and new kitchens and mortgages that had never been paid off.

Heather Brooke: My...

 to heal what wasn't broken until markets and technology broke them. Take cap and trade, which doesn't stop pollution, but simply gives the right to pollute to the highest bidder.

Bidder