Chris Murphy Quotes

It starts with campaign finance reform.

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

We need reform. We need more transparency between those who lobby us and ourselves in the Congress.

There are over 30,000 lobbyists circling around the 535 members of Congress. The people should have their Senator as their lobbyist.

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..

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

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.

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Spending limits not only do not work, they have the perverse effect of making special interests more powerful and more influential.

I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence out of our politics and were running a democracy like the founding fathers intended.

If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

I'm seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly, the overwhelming issue that we've had for a long time is money in politics. I see that problem getting worse.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.