Broadcasting & Cable Magazine Quotes

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

You spend a couple million dollars running for Congress, people get tired of seeing your face.

Unless our democratic philosophy is wrong, there can be no evil in a candidate spending a legally permissible and necessary sum to approach the electorate and enable them to pass an informed judgment upon his qualifications.

You can’t get to be an officeholder in America without buying television time.

The dominant advertising advantage of Clinton, with spending of 10 to 1 over Trump, reinforced the perception that she was trying to buy, rather than earn, votes.

Hillary Clinton is spending hundreds of millions of dollars. I mean, tremendous vast amounts of money in advertising against me.

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

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

The FCC has a moral obligation to protect the public from being ‘blitzed’ and ‘saturated’ with campaign ads.

Where you have close races, money can make all the difference in the world.

The only way a challenger can compete with the built-in advantages of incumbency is to spend money.

American politics is money and thirty second spots.

Public [campaign] financing and free television time are the things that will diminish the high influence that money has on politics.

In the 1972 election campaign the citizen would be the victim of the most sophisticated sales blizzard ever inflicted on any voting population anywhere.

Spending for congressional campaigns is getting to be like the arms race.

Most important of all the structural reforms, we need to follow through on the recent Congressional effort to discipline the use of money in politics, by setting reasonable limits on campaign spending, limiting and publicizing individual and organizational gifts and channeling much more of the money (including … all general election spending) through the respective party committees rather than through individual candidates’ treasuries.

We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

In the 2016 U.S. Senate race, I was on the receiving end of more than $3 million in outside negative attacks funded by the NRA, the second-most spent on any Senate campaign in the country.