Peter Singer Quotes

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

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.

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

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

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

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

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

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.

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

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

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

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

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

America has the best congress money can buy.

Much of the money raised in politics does not come free of charge.

American politics is money and thirty second spots.

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.

The Federal campaign contribution limit of $2,500 is way too low. You can’t even buy a Democrat for $2,500.

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

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

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.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

You shouldn't have political action committees.

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