John Bolton Quotes

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.

It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

Unless our democratic philosophy is wrong, there can be no evil in a candidate spending a legally permissible and necessary sum to approach the electorate and enable them to pass an informed judgment upon his qualifications.

If the friends of the candidate choose to go to expense for committees and canvassing [campaigning] there are no means of preventing them; but such expenses out of the candidate’s own pocket, or any expenses whatever beyond the deposit of £50 (or £100), should be illegal and punishable.

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

Spending for congressional campaigns is getting to be like the arms race.

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

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

Rule of Dark Matter: SuperPAC dollars cannot be seen by most voters but account for most of the money in this universe.