Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

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

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

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.

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

In Canada we have limits on campaign spending and public funding of campaigns. This makes it easier for people [candidates] who don't have access to huge amounts of money.

Not only the candidate should not be required, he should not be permitted, to incur any but a limited and trifling expense for his election.

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

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

History’s pendulum is now swinging back toward the day when political finances were only lightly regulated.

I will not be doing Super-Pacs of any sort. I think allowing unlimited contributions to campaigns is a terrible and an unfortunate step towards plutocracy.

If we must have campaign contributions, this is the way to raise them. If you would start this method now, you would begin a tremendous reform.

This Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.

There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, but I don't think the only alternative is to elect people with money.

One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.

In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns.

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.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

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