Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

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

Campaign finance reform is vital. It is impossible for us to win, especially in committees, because we can never outbid the opposition.

We have to have campaign contributions to apprise the public about our qualifications.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. The natural thing would be to suggest money on the right [wing] doesn't really matter that much. The first thing you have to know is that the presidential elections are the ones where it's most difficult for money to hold sway, in that they're the most public elections.

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.

The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.

The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

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.

There's always a lot that's making me angry, but it won't tie into the election. I mean nothing against Hilary Clinton. I agree with Hilary on most issues, but campaign finance structure makes me very angry, because it means that politicians are going to have to raise a huge amount of money, which narrows the field dramatically.

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.

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

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

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

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 certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

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.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

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

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

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