Jeff Greene Quotes

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

Eventually, money wins in politics.

The environmental movement will never be able to come remotely close to matching the corporations and their auxiliaries dollar for dollar in influencing the electoral and policy-making processes…. Accordingly, campaign finance reform ought to be at the very top of the environmental movement's legislative agenda.

Campaign finance reform is vital. It is impossible for us to win, especially in committees, because we can never outbid the opposition.

A $5,000 campaign contribution to a member of Congress will hardly get you a thank you these days.

We have become part-time Senators and full time fund-raisers. Even the schedule of the Senate itself is now arranged around the need to raise money for the next political campaign, rather than around the need to solve the nation's problems and do the people's business.

The way you have to campaign in this country is you have to beg for money from the very people who need to be brought under control.

So long as politicians need millions to win a seat in Congress and nearly a billion to contest the White House, they will sanctify the methods needed to raise such sums.

Members of Congress are never in town any more. They’re so busy raising money that they leave Thursday night and don’t return till Monday night. Tuesday through Thursday are now long days, so there is no time anymore for bipartisan socialization.

Public [campaign] financing and free television time are the things that will diminish the high influence that money has on politics.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

Most important of all the structural reforms, we need to follow through on the recent Congressional effort to discipline the use of money in politics, by setting reasonable limits on campaign spending, limiting and publicizing individual and organizational gifts and channeling much more of the money (including … all general election spending) through the respective party committees rather than through individual candidates’ treasuries.

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

Spending limits have proven a monumental failure at limiting campaign spending in presidential elections, merely diverting the money underground.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.

I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street...

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.