Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Quotes

We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections.

Either you're for ending Citizens United, or you're not. So, if you're for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

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 think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

It is very important at this juncture to eliminate the influence of big money and special interests in politics.

The evils of the use of corporate money in connection with political elections are so generally recognized that the committee deems it unnecessary to make any argument in favor of the general purpose of this measure.

The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.

Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

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

Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision - this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don't toe the polluter line on climate change.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.