John McCain Quotes

The most misguided, naïve, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court … in the 21st century. To somehow view money as not having a corrupting effect on an election flies in the face of reality. I just think that just one of the five had run for county sheriff. I guarantee you … there will be scandals. There is too much money washing around political campaigns today, and it will take scandals and maybe the Supreme Court will go back and revisit this issue

I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

We have become part-time Senators and full time fund-raisers. Even the schedule of the Senate itself is now arranged around the need to raise money for the next political campaign, rather than around the need to solve the nation's problems and do the people's business.

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

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

Eventually, money wins in politics.

America has the best congress money can buy.

It is campaign money that calls the tune, a fact recognized by every politician within a few minutes after getting into politics.

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

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

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money.

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

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.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.