Ballots Quote by Jill Stein

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for…

— Bob Brown

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but…

— Rahm Emanuel

Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what…

— Bernie Sanders

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position…

— Rick Mercer

“On Election Day, to the surprise of Romney and his backers, Democratic voters turned out in far bigger numbers than the Republicans expected. The…

— Jane Mayer

In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the…

— Eli Pariser

“And what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge? In a typical…

— Steven D. Levitt

Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.

— Chris Hayes

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

— Bernie Sanders

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

— Newt Gingrich

“The drug industry spent $262 Million on political influence in the 1999-2000 election cycle: $177 Million on lobbying, $65 Million on issue ads and…

— Joseph Befumo

People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have…

— Imran Khan