Michael Bloomberg Quotes

The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.

If the friends of the candidate choose to go to expense for committees and canvassing [campaigning] there are no means of preventing them; but such expenses out of the candidate’s own pocket, or any expenses whatever beyond the deposit of £50 (or £100), should be illegal and punishable.

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

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

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

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.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

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

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

The most important thing to [political] parties is who is victorious—not the fairness of the process.

There's only one problem with this year's upcoming Presidential election—one of the candidates has to win.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Election funding is one of the biggest fault lines in our electoral system.

I believe states should have the right to be the masters of their own elections.

I feel bad looking at the politics surrounding a presidential election.

After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even someone capable of uniting the country, let alone running it?

Frequent elections not only entail more burden on human resources, imposition of model code also impedes the development process.