Foster Friess Quotes

Spending limits have proven a monumental failure at limiting campaign spending in presidential elections, merely diverting the money underground.

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

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.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

You shouldn't have political action committees.

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

The best way to shine a light on all of this 'dark money' flooding into our elections would be for Congress to pass legislation requiring all organizations to disclose their political spending in a timely manner.

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

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

Everybody's an expert at campaign financing.

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

I will not be doing Super-Pacs of any sort. I think allowing unlimited contributions to campaigns is a terrible and an unfortunate step towards plutocracy.

Most important of all the structural reforms, we need to follow through on the recent Congressional effort to discipline the use of money in politics, by setting reasonable limits on campaign spending, limiting and publicizing individual and organizational gifts and channeling much more of the money (including … all general election spending) through the respective party committees rather than through individual candidates’ treasuries.

Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

One thing I am scared of is the unlimited amounts of dark money that Republicans have access to in terms of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson. There is a large pool of Republican mega-donors who can pump money into competitive races across America.