Luther Strange Quotes

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

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

Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.

Not since the gilded age has our politics been opened so wide to corporate contribution and donations from secret sources.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

Wealthy individuals have always had the capacity to influence politics, of course, but only after two key campaign finance cases - Wisconsin Right to Life and and Citizens United, have they been able to do it in such a large and blatant way.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

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.

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

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

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

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.

Super PACs may be bad for America, but they’re good for CBS.

Spending limits have proven a monumental failure at limiting campaign spending in presidential elections, merely diverting the money underground.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.

The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.

I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.

Election funding is one of the biggest fault lines in our electoral system.

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

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.

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.