Campaign Finance Reform Quotes

#1. From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

Mark Shields

#2. I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

Gail Collins

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

Robert McChesney

#4. Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Matt Welch

#5. I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

Ben Nelson

#6. 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.

Morgan Fairchild

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

Cameron Russell

#8. Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

Robert Torricelli

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

Andrew Card

#10. It starts with campaign finance reform.

Zack Space

#11. Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.

Cal Thomas

#12. I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

Russ Feingold

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

Robert McChesney

#14. We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle

#15. Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Jay Alan Sekulow

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

Andrew Tobias

#17. Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

Gene Simmons

#18. I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

Brent Musburger

#19. All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Megan Chance

#20. I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Thomas Peterffy

#21. My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm.

Sandra Gulland

#22. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#23. As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.

Ross Macdonald

#24. One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it's of no use.

Vikrmn

#25. Be friends of everyone. Be enemies of no-one

Charles Wesley

#26. When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.

Vladimir Guerrero

#27. One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

Hillary Clinton

#28. I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.

Beverly Cleary

#29. You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Ben Stein

#30. Most Republicans are not prepared to stand up to the fossil fuel industry because they get a lot of their campaign funds from the Koch brothers and other people in the fossil fuel industry. That tells me why we have to reform our campaign finance system.

Bernie Sanders