Bill Janklow Quotes

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

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

In order to survive politically, you've got to have a big-buck fundraiser at least one a year.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.

Trump is not a fan of fundraising, but he's willing to do it.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

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.

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

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.

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

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

The arms race for money being what it is, fundraising starts shortly after someone is elected to Congress.

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.

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.

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.

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