Buying things Quote by David Fahrenthold

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

“Campaign contributions don’t buy votes. What they buy is access.”

— Al Franken

People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate,…

— Brian Sandoval

The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents…

— Gordon Tullock

When a few people control the bulk of money, they can not only influence elections by money power - which enables various forms of…

— Prashant Bhushan

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate…

— Bradley A. Smith

If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech…

— Bradley A. Smith

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

— Luther Strange

Why would the Obama campaign officials oppose any effort to ensure the legitimacy of a campaign contribution? It's the same reason they oppose voter…

— Tom Fitton

Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.

— David Fahrenthold

If people are going to donate huge sums of money to influence elections, we have the right to know who is donating, and this…

— Elissa Slotkin

“In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of means to…

— Bill Dedman