Soft Money Quotes

We [conservatives] are at a disadvantage in the political discussion in America. Most of the participants are of the left. The media, academia and Hollywood … are of the left. We need soft money to offset that disadvantage.

New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.

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

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

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.

There will be more [political] scandals. There is too much money around …. It is legal for an American subsidiary corporation owned by the Chinese Army to make a major contribution to an American political party.

My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

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

Soft money is the silent killer of health care reform and other legislation we need.