Rob Walton Quotes

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

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

Spending for congressional campaigns is getting to be like the arms race.

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

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

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.

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.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

So long as politicians need millions to win a seat in Congress and nearly a billion to contest the White House, they will sanctify the methods needed to raise such sums.

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

Money is the mother's milk of politics

According to Breitbart, data from the Federal Election Commission show that Facebook staff gave $114,000 to Hillary Clinton. The next-closest recipient of political money was former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. He only got $16,604.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

Even Democrats were donating to me.

It's all about raising more money. And they have to keep this alive, so Hillary [Clinton] got cheated.

Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all - than all eight Republicans combined. I don't want to say that, because if that's the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we've got a much bigger problem.

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

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

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

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.

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.