Applied Quote by Bradley A. Smith

If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union…

— Alan K. Simpson

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be…

— Elena Kagan

It starts with campaign finance reform.

— Zack Space

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

— Tom Daschle

With the growing influence of big money in politics, it's time for Congress to reform America's outdated campaign finance system.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

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

— Anonymous

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

— Bradley A. Smith

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

I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.

— Stephen Pagliuca

“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

“If we don’t enact sweeping campaign finance reform we will never see progress on the major issues facing our country… as the special interests…

— Wendell Potter

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