Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

It starts with campaign finance reform.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

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.

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.

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.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

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

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.

We need to get big money out of Washington.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

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

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.

We need reform. We need more transparency between those who lobby us and ourselves in the Congress.

While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.