Bill Clinton Quotes

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

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

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

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

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

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.

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

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

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.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

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.

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.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case told the richest people in America, "You already control the economy of the country. We are now going to let you control the political system as well".

The most misguided, naïve, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court … in the 21st century. To somehow view money as not having a corrupting effect on an election flies in the face of reality. I just think that just one of the five had run for county sheriff. I guarantee you … there will be scandals. There is too much money washing around political campaigns today, and it will take scandals and maybe the Supreme Court will go back and revisit this issue

History’s pendulum is now swinging back toward the day when political finances were only lightly regulated.

Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.

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.

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.