Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

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

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.

The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

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

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

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.

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.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

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

Everybody's an expert at campaign financing.

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

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

History’s pendulum is now swinging back toward the day when political finances were only lightly regulated.

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about it. And public financing of elections should be the first step.

Even though Mr. Trump can give his campaign as much of his own money as he wants to, he can't ask other people to front the money for him and promise to pay them back later without reporting the arrangement in a timely fashion to the Federal Election Commission.

Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money - or 'speaking' - in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are.

We expect elections to have contribution limits, and we expect to follow them.