Campaign Finance Quotes

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

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

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.

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

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