Judith Hope Quotes

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

Even though Senator Cranston was one of the most liberal members of the Senate, most of the time I was with him he was on the phone asking rich men for money….His ideals were as wonderful as any, but at the end of the day, he was still beholden to money.

The donor party is the 2 million people who contribute more than $5000 to political candidates. Unless you are elected by the donor party, you cannot run for major office.

That’s what Presidents do in modern times. They rattle a cup in the homes of the very, very wealthy..

Even Democrats were donating to me.

It's all about raising more money. And they have to keep this alive, so Hillary [Clinton] got cheated.

Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all - than all eight Republicans combined. I don't want to say that, because if that's the truth, that Wall Street already has their man and his name is Barack Obama, then we've got a much bigger problem.

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

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

The cost of fielding a candidate has become so astronomical that the concept of a people’s candidate is just an abstraction.

The way you have to campaign in this country is you have to beg for money from the very people who need to be brought under control.

The arms race for money being what it is, fundraising starts shortly after someone is elected to Congress.

You don’t get campaign contributions just because it’s a philanthropic endeavor.

So long as politicians need millions to win a seat in Congress and nearly a billion to contest the White House, they will sanctify the methods needed to raise such sums.

State party central committees were not providing very much help or raising much money, so the legislative leadership people started stepping in.

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

It is now clear that giving to a candidate’s PAC is equivalent to giving to his campaign; the leaders of the PAC are, for all practical purposes, are the campaign’s bag men.

Money is the mother's milk of politics

I am willing to undergo the disadvantage in order to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics..

Indiana's ninth congressional district isn't historically known as a fount of congressional contributions. That said, if you look at my fundraising history, we've succeeded.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

I know Democrats who have written Lindsey Graham checks.

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.

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.