Peggy Noonan Quotes

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

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

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

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

I voted for Obama.

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Not only the candidate should not be required, he should not be permitted, to incur any but a limited and trifling expense for his election.

Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say they will raise nearly $1 billion for the 2016 elections. When one family can raise as much as an entire party, the system is broken. This is oligarchy, not democracy. We must overturn Citizens United.

The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.

When Donald Trump raises money for the party, raises money, a lot of that money goes to the party, and that's fine. If you're doing a door-knocking program, for example, in Wisconsin, it also helps Ron Johnson who's running for senate. It helps the congressional candidates.

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

Be there because Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver America the change we so desperately need.

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

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

Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.

If Bernie Sanders were liberated from the Democratic Party, it might be a whole new ballgame.

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to tell everyone he picked Joe Biden as his vice president. How do you think this makes Hillary Clinton feel, huh? Finally, she gets a telephone call at 3 a.m., it's to tell her they picked Joe Biden.

Money is in politics, it's been there. I was in politics for 10 years, I had some of the worst ads run against me ever. I had some of the most money spent by a guy in my state running against me. That's not the issue. The issue is getting out and making the case for what we're going to do to create jobs and to make the economic situation for individual families better.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.