J. B. Pritzker Quotes

I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

It is not that candidates who get the most money win, but that winning candidates get the most 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.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.

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.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

You ought to spread campaign contributions around so that you're not beholden to any one contributing group.

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

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

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.

According to Breitbart, data from the Federal Election Commission show that Facebook staff gave $114,000 to Hillary Clinton. The next-closest recipient of political money was former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. He only got $16,604.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

Trump is not a fan of fundraising, but he's willing to do it.

What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

I was delighted to support Marco Rubio.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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.