Jason Kander Quotes

The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

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.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

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

Most scandals involve broken laws. In the case of the congressional campaign financing system, the laws themselves are the scandal.

In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.

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

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

If not checked the power of money will soon control the elections of the President, the senators and the members of the House of representatives.

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 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.

This [political fundraising] is a very sophisticated system … This is a legalized bribery system where no one has to say anything. I don’t have to say what I want—you [the politician] know what I want.

The evils of the use of corporate money in connection with political elections are so generally recognized that the committee deems it unnecessary to make any argument in favor of the general purpose of this measure.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

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

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

Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as human speech. As a result, corporations now can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections - often in secret, without any public disclosure.