Finance Reform Quotes

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

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

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

Campaign finance reform is vital. It is impossible for us to win, especially in committees, because we can never outbid the opposition.

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

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.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

One such issue that Arkansans want action taken on is campaign finance reform. And this is a problem that is not really all that complicated.

I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street...

The leftists are constantly whining and moaning about all the money in politics. They want campaign finance reform, right? They want to get all the money out of politics. They want government money governing campaigns. They want all the money out, they say. But then you look at their coffers, and it's overflowing with hundreds of millions of dollars.

I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.