Campaign Cost Quotes

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

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

A common person can never again be President of the United States.

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

I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.

The consequences of failure are so profound that we can not even contemplate it….We’re going to have to ask for more money—after the election [scheduled for November 2004]

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.