Politics Quote by Jane Mayer

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend…

— Jay Leno

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound…

— John Stossel

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be…

— Bob Ehrlich

Dependence on private money to run campaigns causes pain to Republicans and Democrats alike - and business owners. It's time we did something about…

— Zephyr Teachout

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money…

— Jay Leno

“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge network of…

— Jane Mayer

“The assumption soon proved wrong. Instead, as critics had warned, more and more of the money flooding into elections was spent by secretive nonprofit…

— Jane Mayer

George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so…

— Mark Shields

If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that…

— Bernie Sanders

“Imagine, for a moment, if his administration had been willing to invoke its newly minted democratic mandate to build the new economy promised on…

— Naomi Klein

“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

“There's just something about progressive charities and celebrity-backed causes that makes every "charity" they create or touch turn into a money pit or a…

— Jason Mattera