Meaning:
Anyone's support can be bought if you throw enough money (or alternate
bargaining item) at the problem
Background:
An early reference can be found in William Coxe's Memoirs of Walpole written in
1798, which records Walpole (English Prime Minister) saying in 1745: "All those
men have their price".
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Walpole certainly didn't have Buddha in mind when he said that. British ruled
India from 1858 but it's not hard to imagine the ideas had reached the island much
earlier. Or maybe none took them seriously.
On a second thought, maybe I was not reading carefully as he said "those men"
referring to a certain crowd.
