DeRay Mckesson Quotes

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

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

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

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

It is now clear that giving to a candidate’s PAC is equivalent to giving to his campaign; the leaders of the PAC are, for all practical purposes, are the campaign’s bag men.

Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising.

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

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

A lot of celebrities can raise money for you if you are running for political office.

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

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

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?

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?

Over half of your money will probably come from large donors and PACs. The rest of it you're going to fight tooth and nail for.

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.

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

If you aren't willing to use your own money [for campaigning], you ought to think about something else.

In order to survive politically, you've got to have a big-buck fundraiser at least one a year.

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.

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.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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

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

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.