Naomi Klein Quotes

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.

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

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

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

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

It starts with campaign finance reform.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

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.

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.

Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with 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.

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

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.

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.

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

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.