Bob Brown Quotes

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

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

We have to keep the old man’s money coming into the campaign but keep him out of it.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

Congressman are spending too much time raising money.

I don't have any real opposition against me in my state because the Republicans can't raise enough money to run a decent race.

Not only the candidate should not be required, he should not be permitted, to incur any but a limited and trifling expense for his election.

Even Democrats were donating to me.

Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.

As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.

I think folks need to understand the whole background of Donald Trump. I find from time to time, I talk to people about the campaign and they say, gosh, I didn't know that Donald Trump gave a bunch of money to Jimmy Carter and to Hillary Clinton and to Harry Reid and to John Kerry.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign's own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.

Until the 1980s, candidates spent a fraction of their time talking to donors; just a few weeks a year, a little more right before an election. True, they'd fund raise from the wealthy interests, as they do now, but it was a minuscule part of their job: policy and constituent services were the heart of the work.

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!

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.

I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself or John Faso. So what that means is that if you're a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.

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