Believe Quote by Barack Obama

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

— Zephyr Teachout

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I…

— Chris Murphy

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money…

— Russ Feingold

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

— Tom Daschle

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would…

— Christopher Dodd

I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over…

— James L. Buckley

The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the…

— Chris Murphy

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

— Zephyr Teachout

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

— Dick Durbin

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

With the growing influence of big money in politics, it's time for Congress to reform America's outdated campaign finance system.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 believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

— Bernie Sanders