Virgil Goode Quotes

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

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

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

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

Our democratic system is slowly being corroded and eroded by the influence of PAC money.

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

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

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

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

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

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.

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

Large sums of money really unbalance the democratic process.

If not checked the power of money will soon control the elections of the President, the senators and the members of the House of representatives.