Peter Hoagland Quotes

It is not that candidates who get the most money win, but that winning candidates get the most money.

We have to keep the old man’s money coming into the campaign but keep him out of it.

I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.

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.

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

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.

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?

You ought to spread campaign contributions around so that you're not beholden to any one contributing group.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

You don’t get campaign contributions just because it’s a philanthropic endeavor.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

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

Redistricting makes the inequities in campaign financing even worse. Most elections are so noncompetitive due to how the lines are drawn that big donors already know who's going to win. So they give to the likely winners to curry favor.

Money is the mother's milk of politics

Political contributions are an astonishingly good investment for oil companies.

Spending limits have proven a monumental failure at limiting campaign spending in presidential elections, merely diverting the money underground.

This Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.