Campaign Finance Quotes

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

  Andrew Card

  Successful, Important, Reform

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 21, 2001.

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• Nadie quiere la reforma de la financiación de las campañas más que yo. Me ahorraría una fortuna.

  Andrew Tobias

  Reforma, Campañas, Want

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• In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

  Elena Kagan

  Self, Law, Facts

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• La reforma de la financiación de las campañas y de la ética sólo funciona si limita por igual a todos los grupos de intereses especiales y no hace excepciones para beneficiar a uno u otro partido. La reforma "pay to play" se aprobó para limitar la influencia de los grandes contratistas sobre los funcionarios públicos de los que intentan obtener trabajo.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Fiesta, Jugar, Intentar

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Numbers, United States, Reform

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Political, Culture, Campaigns

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• En realidad, las sanciones penales que se dan podrían ser de hasta cinco años por violar las normas y reglamentos de la reforma de la financiación de campañas. Esto es como la Ley de Extranjería y Sedición de hace años y años, hace décadas.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Regulation, Criminals

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• What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

  James L. Buckley

  Two Sides, Issues, Campaigns

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• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  Olympia Snowe

  Taken, Groups, Campaigns

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• Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

  Fred Thompson

  Presidential, Chinese, Campaigns

  "The 'Inside Politics' Interview: Sen. Fred Thompson". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 19, 1998.

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• Admiro la forma en que McCain trabajó en la reforma de la financiación de las campañas. Admiro el modo en que Nancy Pelosi endureció la columna vertebral de los demócratas durante el debate sobre la sanidad. Admiro el modo en que Barack Obama ha criado un perro en la Casa Blanca sin subirlo nunca al techo del coche para ir de vacaciones.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, White

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress is doing. So to my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people have given up on the political process, stand up and fight back, demand the government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contribution - contributors.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Reality, Government

  Bernie Sanders durante el Debate de Candidatos Presidenciales Demócratas en la Universidad de New Hampshire en Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. 5 de febrero de 2016.

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• 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

  Challenges, Wish, Reform

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• It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Law, Office

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Agency, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• 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.

  David Brooks

  Pensar, Dos, Personas

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope's critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 28, 2013.

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• Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

  Thom Hartmann

  Campaigns, Crime, Committed

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• I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Class, Greed

  Fuente: www.nbcnews.com

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• School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Suicide, School, Simple

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• Estamos muy frustrados porque tenemos un Tribunal Supremo que parece decidido a decir que los más ricos tienen más derecho a la libertad de expresión que el resto de nosotros. Por ejemplo, dicen que no podrían impedirme gastar todo el dinero que he ahorrado en los últimos cinco años en la campaña de Hillary si quisiera, aunque eso violaría claramente el espíritu de la reforma de la financiación de las campañas.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Frustrated, Example

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• 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

  Law, Broken, Boxing

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• Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.

  Bernie Sanders

  Powerful, Wall, Illegal Activities

  Bernie Sanders durante el Debate de Candidatos Presidenciales Demócratas en la Universidad de New Hampshire en Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. 5 de febrero de 2016.

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• Se trata de un sistema corrupto de financiación de las campañas, en el que los grandes intereses económicos y Wall Street intentan comprar las elecciones.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Issues, Trying

  "Meet the Press" con Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. 21 de febrero de 2016.

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• 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

  Democracy, Four, Proud

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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• La mayoría de los republicanos no están dispuestos a enfrentarse a la industria de los combustibles fósiles porque reciben muchos de sus fondos de campaña de los hermanos Koch y otras personas de la industria de los combustibles fósiles. Eso me dice por qué tenemos que reformar nuestro sistema de financiación de campañas.

  Bernie Sanders

  Brother, People, Fossils

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