Pacs Quotes

#1. With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.

Bradley A. Smith

#2. There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Bradley A. Smith

#3. I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

Donald Trump

#4. I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role.

Reince Priebus

#5. The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Kent Conrad

#7. Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

Bradley A. Smith

#8. The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

John Sarbanes

#9. To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Stephen Colbert

#10. By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Bradley A. Smith

#11. PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

Paul Ryan

#12. Sheldon Adelson, for example, gave more than $53 million to Super PACs, but all eight of the candidates he supported lost.59 Karl Rove, a strategic mastermind who won fame advising George W. Bush, oversaw groups that spent $175 million and still lost twenty-one out of thirty elections.

Laurence H. Tribe

#13. Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

Bernie Sanders

#14. The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

Ralph Nader

#15. Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.

Bradley A. Smith

#16. If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them
and it won't be you; you can't afford them.

Juan Cole

#17. It's strange how just the sound of my dad's feet, the murmur of his voice, can change everything. Thing is, for all I know he could be in a good mood. It's just that I've learned to assume the worst.

Kevin Waltman

#18. For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!

Nate Burleson

#19. The object of your definite chief aim should become your "hobby." You should ride this "hobby" continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.

Napoleon Hill

#20. If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does.

Tupac Shakur

#21. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

Tupac Shakur

#22. Hate to break it to you, but sex is ten times better than skydiving."
"No it's not," she rebuts.
Ryke leans forward on his char a little. "Then whoever fucked you didn't do it right, sweetheart.

Krista Ritchie

#23. Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Aristotle.

#24. Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert

#25. Don't do anything wrong, but more important is don't allow anyone else to do wrong through you.

Vinod Rai

#26. A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen