Luther Strange Quotes

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.

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

If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.

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

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 spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

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

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.

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

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

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

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

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

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.

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

It starts with campaign finance reform.

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

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

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

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

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

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