Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

Spending for congressional campaigns is getting to be like the arms race.

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

Unless our democratic philosophy is wrong, there can be no evil in a candidate spending a legally permissible and necessary sum to approach the electorate and enable them to pass an informed judgment upon his qualifications.

The donor party is the 2 million people who contribute more than $5000 to political candidates. Unless you are elected by the donor party, you cannot run for major office.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most effective use of their money is to make sure they stand out in front of the voters and the voters understand their story.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

The 113th Congress has spent much of the year doing nothing but collecting campaign contributions …

You can't win an election with money alone.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.