Rashida Tlaib Quotes

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections.

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

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.

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

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

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

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

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

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

Research who your politicians are, even; know what they do, know who they're supported by legislatively, and know who is supporting them financially for their campaigns. Because ever since Citizens United, we've seen a massive growth in the amount of campaign contributions and corruption in politics as a result, and that has to change.

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

The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

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.'

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.