David Brenner Quotes

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

Hillary Clinton is doing a thank-you for the money, largely because she wants them to continue giving it to her. Make no mistake about that. And that is almost the difference in the two campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, in a nutshell. It's a stark contrast.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

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

When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

If you aren't willing to use your own money [for campaigning], you ought to think about something else.

Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.

Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That's right, $27.

It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

A lot of celebrities can raise money for you if you are running for political office.

We've raised a lot of money from small people that - people that give small donations, people that wanna be a part of it and they've been very much left behind. We call them the forgotten man and woman. And we've raised millions of - more than any Republican ever thought possible .

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

If they can't suck money out of the Hamptons, a candidate really has to throw in the sponge.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

We don't have a big party. We don't have election funding. We don't have television time.

Even Democrats were donating to me.

It's gotta be hard when you are a newcomer to this kind of thing, this big political scene and you have somebody like Michael Bloomberg come in with hundreds of millions of dollars, dumping it in.

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

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

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.