Campaign finance Quote by Alan K. Simpson

Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to…

— Bradley A. Smith

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than…

— Nina Easton

It starts with campaign finance reform.

— Zack Space

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

— Patrick Murphy

“Bopp agreed. “We had a 10-year plan to take all this down,” he told the Times. “And if we do it right, I think…

— Jane Mayer

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

— Tom Daschle

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit…

— Thomas Kean, Jr

With the growing influence of big money in politics, it's time for Congress to reform America's outdated campaign finance system.

— Ben Ray Lujan

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

— Ben Nelson

“Far from the Supreme Court majority’s assumption in the Citizens United case that political spending would be transparent, the Kochs and their partners took…

— Jane Mayer

That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're showing the…

— Austan Goolsbee

“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—”

— Jane Mayer