Peter Schuyler Quotes

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

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.

In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

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

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

The most misguided, naïve, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court … in the 21st century. To somehow view money as not having a corrupting effect on an election flies in the face of reality. I just think that just one of the five had run for county sheriff. I guarantee you … there will be scandals. There is too much money washing around political campaigns today, and it will take scandals and maybe the Supreme Court will go back and revisit this issue

The Federal campaign contribution limit of $2,500 is way too low. You can’t even buy a Democrat for $2,500.

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

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

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy.

It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races.