Corporate Donations Quotes

Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.

The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.

Politicians need money at election time and money to get the vote. Well, more than half of money in election comes from corporate interests whose interests are in polluting the Chinese environment and making products.

Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

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

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Money is not free speech. Money is property.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate. That's not how Trump operates. That's not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics.

The identity of political donors should be disclosed and bureaucratic rules should not circumvent the original intent of federal law or interfere with the public's ability to hold these organizations accountable.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

Raising campaign money from Washington PACs is much easier than from individuals because its a business relationship.

Political contributions are an astonishingly good investment for oil companies.

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

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.

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

If you don’t find out who’s paying for these groups then you don’t know what they’re up to.

A corporation cannot make a campaign contribution to a candidate for federal office.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the problems that are plaguing our schools and our youth would disappear.